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

By Marine Freibrun and Sandy Brunet

Explore the "why," "what," and "how" of formative assessments in the classroom

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 & 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1394170734
• ISBN13: 9781394170739
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.6" x 8.8"