The Handbook for
Collaborative
Common Assessments
Tools for Design, Delivery, and Data Analysis
CASSANDRA ERKENS
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Names: Erkens, Cassandra, author.
Title: The handbook for collaborative common assessments : tools for design, delivery, and data analysis / Cassandra Erkens.
Description: Bloomington, IN : Solution Tree Press, [2019] | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018050782 | ISBN 9781942496861 (perfect bound)
Subjects: LCSH: Teachers--Rating of. | Teacher effectiveness. | Professional learning communities. | Group work in education.
Classification: LCC LB2838 .E749 2019 | DDC 371.14/4--dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018050782
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Acknowledgments
This handbook is filled with the invaluable tools, templates, and strategies that I have created with and for incredible teachers, leaders, schools, and districts committed to doing the work of collaborative common assessments. Educators from large teams to small ones and from urban districts to rural districts have iteratively used and refined the materials herein. There is no possible way I could name the hundreds of educators, to whom I am so grateful, who have had a hand in making these tools practical. Still, I must acknowledge a few amazing educators for their ongoing commitment, their willingness to share their results, and their investment in improving the work of collaborative common assessments.
Mario Andrade
Happy Carrico
Susan Cole
Michelle DeMers
Paula Dillon
Amanda Ellis
Angela Freese
Lynn Fuller
Chris Hansen
Catherine Holmes
Ken Mattingly
Alyssa McCanne
Jadi Miller
Susannah O’Bara
William Olsen
Marnie Pauly
Diane Sanna
Melissa Sarasty
Linda Savastano
Tom Schimmer
Sarah Schuhl
Rea Smith
Eric Twadell
Nicole Dimich Vagle
Kim Zeidler Watters
I invite you to do as these amazing educators did: make the tools found herein your own. Try them, modify them, improve them, and share them. Together, let’s create collaborative common assessment systems that enrich professional development opportunities and improve learning for all.
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Table of Contents
Teamwork. Instruction. Results
Phases of the Collaborative Common Assessment Process
Understanding Collaborative Common Assessment
Defining Collaborative Common Assessments
Designed or Approved in Advance of Instruction
Administered in Close Proximity by All Instructors