inFormative Assessment: When It's Not About a Grade

By Gene M. Kerns

Book Overview

Use assessment as a powerful tool to inform instruction and learning

With practical, informed assessment techniques, you can increase your instructional effectiveness and demonstrate improvements in student learning. This research-based book, part of the In A Nutshell series, provides a succinct yet substantive discussion about formative assessments and how they impact the teaching/learning cycle. The authors present results-oriented methods, offer invaluable tips, and examine three types of inFormative assessments:

Routine inFormative Assessments to weave into everyday instructionReflective inFormative Assessments to foster self-assessment for students and teachersRigorous inFormative Assessments to provide continuous tools that inform teaching practices and student learning

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1412975425
• ISBN13: 9781412975421
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Corwin Publishers
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.9"