Description
Supercharge your formative assessment skills and watch student learning soar!
The authors describe an effective four-step process for improving teachers’ formative assessment practices that provides opportunities to reflect, consider alternative instructional approaches, and apply what they have learned. The text suggests that teachers ask themselves the same questions they ask students:
- Where am I going?
- What can formative assessment practice look like?
- Where am I currently in my formative assessment practice?
- How do I close the gap?
Included are case studies, examples of formative assessment in practice, and a companion website with tools and templates.
Table of Contents
List of Web Tools
Foreword
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Preface
Who Is This Book For?
Special Features of This Book
Chapter Highlights
1. Introduction to Improving Formative Assessment Practice
Formative and Summative Assessment
Evaluation and Formative Assessment
Evaluation and Professional Development
The Self-Evaluation Process
Overview of the Chapters
2. Examining Formative Assessment
Formative Assessment in Practice
Understanding Formative Assessment
The Impact of Formative Assessment on Learning
Formative Assessment Characteristics Used in the “How-To Guide”
Summary: The Big Idea of Chapter 2
Questions for Individual Consideration
Questions for Consideration as a Learning Community
3. Getting Started on Your Self-Evaluation Journey
Beginning the Self-Evaluation Process
Developing Familiarity with Formative Assessment
Am I Ready to Engage in This Process?
Summary: The Big Idea of Chapter 3
4. A Targeted Look at One Area
Personal Reflection on Strengths and Areas for Improvement
Collecting Evidence of Practice
Assessing Quality of Information
Selecting an Area for Improvement
Act-Reflect-Revise
Summary: The Big Idea for Chapter 4
5. Support for Making Changes to Practice
The Cycle-Within-The-Cycle: Act, Reflect, Revise
Sources of Support
How Will I Know When I am Ready to Choose a New Target or Characteristic?
Summary: The Big Idea of Chapter 5
6. Self-Evaluation of Changes to Practice
Chain of Evidence
Collecting Evidence of Effects
Sources of Evidence
Additional Considerations
Summing Up
Summary: The Big Idea of Chapter 6
7. Putting It All Together
Index
