Embedding Formative Assessment

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 discussions and activities that elicit evidence of learning

Provide feedback that moves learners forward

Activate students as learning resources for each other

Activate students as agents 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