Embedding Formative Assessment: Practical Techniques for K-12 Classrooms
Embedding Formative Assessment: Practical Techniques for K-12 Classrooms
Embedding Formative Assessment: Practical Techniques for K-12 Classrooms
Description
Description
Effective classroom formative assessment helps educators make minute-by-minute, day-by-day instructional decisions. This clear, practical guide for teachers centers on five key instructional strategies, along with an overview of each strategy and practical formative assessment techniques for implementation in K-12 classrooms. The authors provide guidance on when and how to use the techniques, tips, cautions, and enhancements to sustain formative assessment.
Educators will learn how to:
- Clarify, share, and understand learning intentions and success criteria
- Engineer productive discussion and activities that elicit evidence of learning
- Provide feedback that moves learners forward
- Activate students as learning resources for each other
- Activate students as owners of their own learning
Contents:
Techniques: Tips, Cautions, and Enhancements
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Introduction
Chapter 1: Why Formative Assessment Should Be a Priority for Every Teacher
Chapter 2: Your Professional Learning
Chapter 3: Strategy 1--Clarifying, Sharing, and Understanding Learning Intentions and Success Criteria
Chapter 4: Strategy 2--Engineering Effective Discussion, Tasks, and Activities That Elicit Evidence of Learning
Chapter 5: Strategy 3--Providing Feedback That Moves Learning Forward
Chapter 6: Strategy 4--Activating Students as Learning Resources for One Another
Chapter 7: Strategy 5--Activating Students as Owners of Their Own Learning
Conclusion
Resources
Appendix
References
Index
Critical Reviews
Critical Reviews
"Loaded with real-world advice, "Embedding Formative Assessment" offers bulls-eye guidelines about how to make formative assessment sizzle." -- W. James Popham "professor emeritus at UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, author of "Classroom Assessment""
"Wiliam and Leahy have done it again! In this highly readable book, they present five formative assessment strategies, a compelling explanation of why each is important, and scores of practical techniques and tips for how to implement them in your classroom." -- Susan M. Brookhart "senior research associate, Duquesne University, author of "Performance Assessment""
"This book offers almost unlimited potential for increasing student learning and achievement. Wiliam and Leahy present formative assessment as a dynamic partnership between teachers and students, blending guiding principles with practical activities that demonstrate how best to match instructional purpose with tools and techniques." -- Jackie Walsh "educational consultant, coauthor of "Quality Questioning""
Publishing Information
Publishing Information
Publisher:
Solution Tree
Pub date:
2015-06-16
Length:
264 pages
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