Authentic Assessment in Action - by Katie Alaniz & Kristie Cerling (Paperback)

About the Book

Book Synopsis

Authentic Assessment in Action is designed to empower educators to provide highly impactful, consistently engaging, and unquestionably applicable learning opportunities for students.

Review Quotes

This is a powerful book that ignites passion in teachers and learners. It creates a pathway to engaging students in relevant, focused innovation and critical and creative thinking. With this guidance in this digital age, every student could learn more, retain more, and create more through authentic assessment. Dr. Alaniz and Dr. Cerling have developed a guide to significantly enhance opportunities for educators and students to self-actualize.

Anyone familiar with education knows the importance of outcomes. Outcomes are only genuinely believable when they are measured. This book is a clarion call to leverage assessments to become applicable in students' lives. Information without application is fruitless, and application should be the result of effective assessments. Learning is transformed when we foster environments of meaningful assessment within school settings. I recommend this resource to anyone desiring to transform their classroom into an incubator of passionate learners.

Assessment has been the change agent of the past few decades. It has rightly helped educators better align their teaching with desired outcomes for a more focused learning experience. Nevertheless, we are just beginning to appropriately apply assessments in our new digital world. Students are learning and creating differently as information and data are literally at their fingertips. I am grateful for the timeliness of this book as the authors strategically address this new challenge.

About the Author

Katie Alaniz, EdD, is director of the Center for Learning Innovations and Teaching Excellence (C-LITE) and a faculty member within the College of Education Behavioral Sciences at Houston Baptist University. As a teacher and digital learning specialist for over a decade in both public and private schools, including her service at River Oaks Baptist School, Dr. Alaniz guides fellow educators as they meaningfully integrate digital tools and resources within their classrooms.

Kristie Cerling, EdD, is Dean for the College of Education and Behavioral Sciences at Houston Baptist University. Dr. Cerling has over 25 years of experience as a teacher, administrator, and leader in public and private schools. She has special interest in teaching strategies, mentoring new teachers and leaders, and Holocaust education.