Answers to Essential Questions About Standards, Assessments, Grading, and Reporting

About Lee Ann JungThomas R. Guskey

Thomas R. Guskey PhD is Professor Emeritus in the College of Education at the University of Kentucky. A graduate of the University of Chicagos renowned Measurement Evaluation and Statistical Analysis (MESA) program he began his career in education as a middle school teacher served as an administrator in the Chicago Public Schools and was the first Director of the Center for the Improvement of Teaching and Learning a national educational research center. He is the author/editor of twenty-seven books and over three hundred articles published in prominent research journals as well as Educational Leadership Kappan and The School Administrator.   Dr. Guskey served on the Policy Research Team of the National Commission on Teaching and Americas Future and on the task force to develop the National Standards for Professional Development. He was named a Fellow in the American Educational Research Association and was awarded the Associations prestigious Relating Research to Practice Award. He was also awarded Learning Forwards Outstanding Contribution to the Field Award and Phi Delta Kappans Distinguished Educator Award. Perhaps most unique in the 158-year history of his undergraduate institution Thiel College he is one of only three graduates to receive the Outstanding Alumnus Award and be inducted into the Thiel College Athletic Hall of Fame.   His most recent books include Implementing Mastery Learning (2023) Instructional Feedback: The Power the Promise the Practice (with Smith & Lipnevich 2023); Get Set Go! Creating Successful Grading and Reporting Systems (2020) What We Know About Grading (with Brookhart 2019) and On Your Mark: Challenging the Conventions of Grading and Reporting (2015). He may be contacted by email at guskey@uky.edu Twitter at @tguskey or at www.tguskey.com. Lee Ann JungPhD is founder of Lead Inclusion Clinical Professor at San Diego State University and a consultant to schools worldwide. A former special education teacher and administrator Lee Ann now spends her time in schools working shoulder-to-shoulder with teams in their efforts to improve systems and practice. She has consulted with schools in more than 30 countries and throughout the United States in the areas of universal design for learning inclusion intervention and mastery assessment and grading. Lee Ann is the author of 7 books numerous journal articles and book chapters on inclusion universal design and assessment. She serves on the advisory board for Mastery Transcript Consortium as section editor of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Education and on the editorial board member for several professional journals. In her community Lee Ann is a board member for Life Adventure Center a local nonprofit with a mission of healing for those who have experienced trauma. Bring Lee Ann Jung to your school or district! Learn more at LeadInclusion.org