The Teacher as Assessment Leader - Softcover

Editor: Thomas R. Guskey, PhD, is senior research scholar at the University of Louisville and professor emeritus in the College of Education at the University of Kentucky. A graduate of the University of Chicago, he began his career in education as a middle school teacher and later served as a school administrator in the Chicago Public Schools.

He was the first director of the Center for the Improvement of Teaching and Learning, a national educational research center. Dr. Guskey served on the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future, the task force to develop National Standards for Staff Development, was named a fellow in the American Educational Research Association, and was also awarded the association's prestigious Relating Research to Practice Award.

He is the author/editor of 25 award-winning books and more than 250 book chapters and articles. His most recent books include What We Know About Grading (with Brookhart, 2019); On Your Mark: Challenging the Conventions of Grading and Reporting (2015); Reaching the Highest Standard in Professional Learning: Data (with Roy & Von Frank, 2014); Answers to Essential Questions about Standards, Assessments, Grading, and Reporting (with Jung, 2013); and Benjamin S. Bloom: Portraits of an Educator (2012).

Contributors: Cassandra Erkens, William M. Ferriter, Tammy Heflebower, Tom Hierck, Chris Jakicic, Sharon V. Kramer, Jeffry Overlie, Ainsley B. Rose, Nicole Dimich Vagle, Adam Young, and Michelle Goodwin