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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewFormative assessment is a powerful tool to inform instruction, monitor student's progress toward learning targets and provide meaningful feedback to students. Assessment for Learning: A Practical Approach for the Classroom by Eileen Dial offers helpful, classroom-based suggestions for teachers and teams. I encourages teachers and teams to carefully consider these thoughtful and useful assignments and assessments. -- Nancy W. Sindelar, PhD, author, consultant and professor
Dr. Dial lays the foundation for student learning by presenting the essentials for professional learning communities: a blueprint of long-range planning, lesson planning, designing effective selected and constructed response assessments and rubrics all constructed from standards. Guiding questions, discussion questions, and reflections for teams put the practice in this “practical” text as teacher teams learn more about differentiation based on the analysis of common formative assessments aligned to CCSS standards through the TIDES learning loop process and how to support student learning with true differentiation of content, process, and product. The examples and models provide support and structure effective student learning. This is a must-read for teacher teams and Principal teams in order to create results in student learning. -- Vanessa Karwan, EdD, president of Core Learning Consulting, Inc.
Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1 What is Assessment? How Should I Use It? Chapter 2 Planning What to Teach Chapter 3 Lesson Design Chapter 4 Assessment Item Formats Chapter 5 Creating Formative Assessments Chapter 6 Data-Driven Decision Making: The Learning Loop Chapter 7 Differentiation: Content, Process, and Product Chapter 8 Feedback for Learning References
