Inquiry Mindset Assessment Edition
Create a seat for your students at the assessment table.
Trevor MacKenzie returns with another deep dive into inquiry as he examines the role of assessment in education through the lens of co-designing and co-constructing with students. In Inquiry Mindset Assessment Edition, MacKenzie outlines a series of beliefs, values, and frameworks that allow all teachers to scaffold towards an assessment reality that is infused with student voice, understanding, and autonomy.
How can we . . .
Help students see themselves in a more positive, confident, and personally fulfilling light?
Cultivate the conditions for agency and equity in our classrooms and schools so all learners can thrive?
Shift education so that our students become more empowered, more competent, and more compassionate young people?
Inquiry Mindset Assessment Edition offer practical ways to…
Co-design assessment with your students to create both a sense of belonging and ownership over learning in the classroom.
Establish greater clarity and a deeper understanding for your students in how they’ll be assessed.
Positively impact achievement and scores as well as your students’ sense of self and personal responsibility and autonomy.
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Teachers committed to personalizing learning and engaging their students in inquiry must inevitably confront an assessment question: How to transform a process that is typically done to students into one that honors student agency and treats them as assessment partners? Guided by ten beliefs about student-centered assessment, this book spells out the specific steps needed to enact these beliefs. Centered by an overarching conceptual framework, MacKenzie’s eminent clarity and practicality is derived from years of classroom practices. Indeed, he generously dispenses actionable nuggets on nearly every page. If you value inquiry and seek to develop reflective, self-directed students, get this book. It is brimming with advice and seasoned with soul. Your students will thank you
Jay McTighe
Co-author of the Understanding by Design® framework
Finally, a book on assessment that inspires! By putting students at the center of the enterprise, engaging them in meaningful co-construction, and being serious about promoting their agency, Trevor MacKenzie offers up fresh insights and tools for all teachers committed to a student-centered learning experience that empowers.
Ron Ritchhart
Author of The Power of Making Thinking Visible and Creating Cultures of Thinking
