This second edition of the best-selling, award-winning Design in Five offers new and targeted information for reimagining assessment practices, as well as refined processes and protocols to fully engage learners. Refinements to the original five-phase protocol come from actual experiences of teachers who have engaged with the process. This is the book you need to design and use assessment well.

This book will help K–12 teachers, administrators and students of teacher preparation courses:

• Reflect on current assessment practices to determine their effectiveness
• Learn and implement a five-phase process to design meaningful, relevant assessments that lead to high levels of learning for all
• Align and design items and tasks to learning goals
• Design assessments that help students invest in their learning and take action to improve
• Access numerous reproducible surveys, charts and sample assessments.