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Assessing Learning Librarians and Teachers as Partners
Violet H. Harada, Joan M. Yoshina
Book Code: LU2008
ISBN: 1-59158-200-8
ISBN-13: 978-1-59158-200-7
168 pages, figures
Libraries Unlimited
Publication: 6/30/2005
List Price: $42.00 (UK Sterling Price: £24.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Paperback
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Awards:
  • Teacher Librarian The Best Professional Books of 2005
Reviews:
  • School library media specialists will find the practical tools they need to assess student learning in this book. Included are useful checklists, rubrics, logs, graphic organizers, examples of student portfolios, and sample lessons for all levels. The book also covers how to communicate results to teachers, administrators, and the larger community.
    —Curriculum Connections     Fall 2006
  • One of the most important books of the year on assessment. Highly recommended.
    —Teacher Librarian     April 2006
  • The question now is: How do we assess student learing in the context of the school media center? This is the first book to answer this question. K-12 media specialists will find this book invaluable in understanding and implementing assessment of student learning and achievement. Each chapter begins with an overview and key questions that are answered in the reading, and ends with an extensive list of print and Internet references....Recommended.
    —Library Media Connection     March 2006
  • [T]hese two experienced Hawaii librarians offer terrific ideas at all grade levels for assessing (formatively) and evaluating (summatively) both our work and that of our students. After reviewing the topic of assessment, the authors look at library media centers to determine where and how students should be assessed and then examine assessment tools and explain a wide array of effective graphic organizers. In a flashback to excellent outcome-based learning strategies (renamed backward planning), they detail units for elementary, middle, and high schools using varied assessments, most extensively student portfolios....While newer teacher-librarians may learn some of these strategies in library school, veterans should be excited at possibilities that they may never have considered, thus providing much-needed injections of clear, accessible, exciting instruction into their lives as well as those of their students
    —School Library Journal     December 2005
Description: Focusing on the role of library media specialists in assessing student learning, this is the first full-length book written to address its practical application in the school library media center. It is an important book for school librarians to consider as they address their role as "teachers" in schools and the accountability issues associated with that role. It places students at the center of the assessment equation and addresses the following topics as they relate specifically to school library instructional programs: purposes of assessment, essential elements of assessment, knowing what to assess, multiple methods for assessment, and management and communication of assessment results. The book's primary audiences are library media specialists and teachers in K-12 settings. It is also relevant for other educators, who are centrally involved in K-12 programs including district, regional and state library media coordinators, building level administrators, and library school educators. The authors cull from their own 30-year careers as library practitioners, university instructors, and workshop presenters to present doable, practical methods for the library media specialist to be involved in assessing student learning. Though this topic appears in the theoretical literature and is addressed in journal articles or chapters in contributed books, this is the first practical in-depth analysis for the school library field. Grades K-12.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Acknowledgments
  • Assessment in Todays Schools
  • Assessment in Library Media Centers
  • Tools for Assessment: Checklists, Rubrics, and Rating Scales
  • Tools for Assessment: Conferences, Logs, and Personal Correspondence
  • Tools for Assessment: Graphic Organizers
  • Beginning with the End in Mind: Elementary Grade Example
  • Beginning with the End in Mind: High School Example
  • Student Portfolios
  • Communicating Evidence of Learning
  • Index
PDF Catalogs:
LU Textbook Catalog Fall 2007.pdf
LU School Library Spring 2008.pdf
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