Rehumanizing Assessment: Gathering Evidence of Student Learning Through Storytelling (Transforming Assessment Through Storytelling) Assessment ed. [Mīkstie vāki]

"Storytelling, a highly creative and versatile skill, affords students a profoundly engaging means of exploring concepts and questions in uniquely personal ways. In Rehumanizing Assessment: Gathering Evidence of Student Learning Through Storytelling, TomSchimmer and Natalie Vardabasso examine the potential and historically proven benefits of storytelling in elevating student learning and innovation. Drawing upon research and culturally diverse story structure practices, they demonstrate how these benefits can be brought to bear in academic contexts, and they offer diverse strategies by which students may hone and demonstrate growing competencies through narrative craft. In an age when innovation, self-agency, and community are prized and encouraged, Rehumanizing Assessment presents a viable, creative method of assessment that will transform students' engagement with learning objectives from rote memorization to thoughtful, meaningful contemplation and expression"-- Provided by publisher.

Discover the transformative power of storytelling in assessment and student learning. Drawing on culturally responsive practices, this approach fosters innovation, self-reflection, and student engagement. Through narrative-based strategies, educators can elevate formative and summative assessments, promoting authentic, competency-based learning; meaningful growth; and deeper connections to critical competencies, as well as cultural archetypes. This guide helps educators reimagine assessment in diverse, student-centered classrooms.

K–12 teachers can use this book to:

• Revitalize assessment to encourage students’ growth as critical, creative thinkers
• Elevate student engagement through creative responses and personal reflections
• Employ elements of narrative structure to explore and hone student competencies
• Cultivate student agency and innovation in contemplating and expressing knowledge
• Create opportunities for students to find personal meaning in their learning experiences

Contents:
Introduction
Part 1: Looking Back to Look Forward
Chapter 1: Humanity Through Story
Chapter 2: Essential Assessment Through Story
Chapter 3: Critical Competencies Through Story
Part 2: Learning Through Story
Chapter 4: Conflict Through Story
Chapter 5: Harmony Through Story
Chapter 6: Reflection Through Story
Chapter 7: Perspective Through Story
Chapter 8: Imagination Through Story
Chapter 9: Craft Through Story
Epilogue
References and Resources
Index