This book provides teachers and school leaders with practical, effective, and proven assessment strategies that are immediately implementable in classrooms. You’ll learn about 20 high-impact formative assessment strategies, with details on how they can be applied to a variety of content areas and grade levels, including mathematics, science, language arts, social studies, and various electives. In this accessible book, these experienced authors demonstrate the how and why, along with a framework for folding these new ideas into job-embedded professional development. 20 Formative Assessment Strategies that Work provides the full toolkit for implementing, managing, and modifying these assessment strategies in your school and classrooms today.
Kate Wolfe Maxlow is Professional Learning Coordinator at Hampton City Schools in Hampton, Virginia, USA.Karen L. Sanzo is Professor of Educational Leadership at Old Dominion University, USA. Recipient of 2019 Master Professor Award from University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA).
ContentsMeet the AuthorsPrefaceeResourcesIntroduction: Formatively Assessing LearningPart I: Arts: Formative Assessment StrategiesIntegrating Arts into Formative AssessmentsAssessment 1 Postcard SummariesAssessment 2 Sculpt ItAssessment 3 Sing ItAssessment 4 Who/What Am I This TimeProfessional Development Plan: Arts TasksPart II: Collaborative: Formative Assessment StrategiesIntegrating Collaboration into Formative AssessmentsAssessment 5…And Scene!Assessment 6 Check In, Check OutAssessment 7 Group Graphic OrganizersAssessment 8 Learning Upgrade ChartsProfessional Development Plan: Collaborative TasksPart III: Movement: Formative Assessment StrategiesIntegrating Movement into Formative AssessmentsAssessment 9 Four CornersAssessment 10 Give One, Get One, Trade!Assessment 11 Graffiti ArtAssessment 12 Human Likert ScaleProfessional Development Plan: Movement TasksPart IV: Select Response: Formative Assessment StrategiesIntegrating Select Response into Formative AssessmentsAssessment 13 ABC CupsAssessment 14 Entrance TicketsAssessment 15 Exit TicketAssessment 16 Question HuntProfessional Development Plan: Select Response TasksPart V: Supply Response: Formative Assessment StrategiesIntegrating Supply Response into Formative AssessmentsAssessment 17 3-2-1Assessment 18 I Think I WonderAssessment 19 Sample Student ScenarioAssessment 20 Would You RatherProfessional Development Plan: Select Response TasksReferences
"A great resource for assessment with so many ready-to-use resources! So helpful for working in our teacher-based-team meetings to plan ways to keep students actively assessing without boring them with tests. The variety of assessments help to take the redundancy of testing out of the classroom and the focus back to learning." —Jessica Bennett, 8th Grade Language Arts Teacher, Brookpark Middle School, OH