What Teachers Really Need to Know About Formative Assessment

If you've always thought that formative assessment was complicated and confusingand too much to add to what you already dohere's a book that explains exactly how to make formative assessment a seamless and natural part of your teaching process. Emphasizing applications at the secondary level but relevant to all grade levels and every discipline, this "teacher's eye" view of formative assessment explains how it benefits you and your students and provides lots of assessment strategies you can use before, during, and after instruction to improve your instruction and your students' learning, including Four ways to assess students' prior knowledge, skills, values, and readiness for the purpose of fine-tuning your unit plans. Ways to help ensure unit mastery by using Nutshelling, 321, Ball Toss, QA Mix-Up, and Grab Bag. Strategies for peer and self-assessment including journaling, critiques, and rubrics.