The Formative Assessment Handbook: Resources to Improve Learning Outcomes for All Students

The Formative Assessment Handbook is a toolkit that provides ideas, activities, and reproducibles for implementing formative assessment in the classroom. It explains what formative assessment is, why it is critical to student achievement, and how to set up a classroom for success. It also includes up-to-date research, instructions for utilizing pre-assessments, collaborative routines, and discussions of dialogic teaching and dialectic synergy.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 304 pages
Publication date: 18 January 2024
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

In The Formative Assessment Handbook: Resources to Improve Learning Outcomes for All Students, the authors, with over 40 years of cumulative classroom, school, and district and state-level experience, deliver a crucial toolkit of ready-to-go ideas, activities, and reproducibles that make it easy to implement formative assessment quickly, effectively, and efficiently. You'll also learn what formative assessment is, what it looks like, and why it's a critical component to student achievement.

The authors explain how to set your classroom up for success and develop and select learning targets and success criteria to create a clear pathway and roadmap for your formative assessments. You'll also find:

Up-to-date research supporting the use of formative assessment in the classroom.

Instructions for properly utilizing pre-assessments.

Collaborative routines you can implement during instruction.

Discussions of dialogic teaching and dialectic synergy.

An indispensable resource for both new and veteran K–12 educators, The Formative Assessment Handbook will also prove invaluable to administrators and educational coaches.

Weight: 454g
Dimension: 234 x 185 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781394170739