Educational author and consultant Burke has facilitated numerous professional development workshops over the past 20 years to help educators effectively embed the standards into their instruction, and is the author or editor of numerous books and articles on standards-based learning, formative and summative assessment, and related topics. Her third-edition resource text provides a six-step process to help educators link teaching and assessment to standards. The text includes templates for each step of the process, such as sample tasks, rubrics, and units; a companion website contains additional examples. The revised text has been updated throughout with recent research findings focusing on the ongoing use of formative assessments that provide specific feedback to students related to their educational goals. The third edition also features 20 new examples from language arts, reading, mathematics, science, social studies, foreign language, food and family courses, drama, and technology; more secondary examples geared to middle and high school students; and an all-new 70-page resource section at the end of the book containing eight original, reproducible "performance task units." Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)