Formative Assessment: Responding To Your Students

This "how-to" book on formative assessment is filled with practical suggestions for teachers who want to use formative assessment in their classrooms. With practical strategies, tools, and examples for teachers of all subjects and grade levels, this book shows you how to use formative assessment to promote successful student learning.

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Formative Assessment: Student Response
Formative Assessment Introduction
Define Formative Assessment
Incorporate Formative Assessments into the Bigger Assessment Picture
Learn the Advantages of Formative Assessment
Connect Formative Assessment Process and the Standards
Identify Formative Assessment Strategies
Preassessment of Your Students
Sharing the Learning Standards with Your Students
Reword the Standards
Post the Standards
Modify Daily Agendas to Become Learning Agendas
Begin and End the Class with the Standard
Label Each Assignment as to the Specific Critical Goal of the Standard
Sharing the Quality of Learning
Summary
Formative Assessment: Monitoring
Introduction
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Observe for What Students Say
Question
Discuss
Elicit Responses from Class Discussion Questions
Ask Questions Using Cards, Fingers, and Hand-Held Responses
Rate Discussions
Agree-Disagree
Sample
Think-Pair-Share
Think Aloud
Count
Take a Three-Minute Pulse
Confer about Learning
Ask Direct Questions
Converse, Dialogue, or Role Play
Observe What Students Do
Record Anecdotal Information
Observe Physical Responses
What Students Produce (Their Work)
Become Inquiring Minds
Draw for Understandings
Provide Group Instructional Feedback
Peer Evaluate
Journal
Write Diagnostic Learning Logs
Concept Map
Check Homework
Turn in an Exit Sheet
Reflect Through One-Minute Confusion Paper
Build In Portfolio Planning Days
Review a Learning Contract
How Students Answer Test Questions
Ask Topic Questions
Use a Formative Assessment Test Bank
Small Group, Peer, and Self-Monitoring
Test in a Collaborative Group
Write a Test in Pairs
Self-Checks During Class
Self-Assess the Learning
Recording the Observations
Record Using Low- to High-Technology Approaches
Use a Checklist
Record Students’ Standard Observations Over Time
Formative Assessment: Diagnosis
Examine the Role of Diagnosis in Formative Assessment
Diagnostic Analysis
Use Your Expertise
Consider General Formative Learning Issues
Keep the Standards in Front of You
Identify Missing Critical Goals
Scaffold the Learning Experiences
Determine Prerequisite Skills
Identify Misconceptions
Triangulate
Observe Learning Over Time
Diagnostic Moving Forward
Use Quizzes
Select New Success Strategy
Question as Diagnosis
Transform “I Can” Statements Into Learning Solutions
Analyze Through Exemplars
Improve by Using Assessment Tools
Learn Improvement Strategies from Other Students
Feedback Characteristics
Feedback Types
Give Written Feedback
Provide Oral Feedback
Use Nonverbal Feedback
Employ Technology-Based Feedback
Feedback Groupings within the Classroom
Use Whole Class Feedback
Look at the Traffic Light Feedback
Focus on Key Aspects of the Goal
Complete a Class Gallery Walk
Examine an Exemplar
Show the Class Weekly Standard Average
Use Digital Student Exemplars for Feedback
Small Group
Provide Mini-Fishbowl Feedback
Create Small Group Feedback Log
Think-Pair-Share on Individual Goals
Give Peer Feedback After Completing a Checklist
Writing Feedback Model
Identify Strategies and Supply Missing Ones
Have Group Give Specific Feedback
One-On-One or Self-Feedback
One-on-One Talk
Add Feedback to Students’ Journals
Offer Feedback through Coupons and Special Cards
Analyze Weekly Scores
Check Against Your Rating
Self-Assess Their Goals
Student Selection of Their Own Feedback
Select Their Feedback for the Unit
Select Rubric Part for Detailed Feedback
Feedback Opportunities and Schedules
Supply Feedback Over Time on One Standard
Students Assessment of Class Feedback
Feedback Time for Improvement
Use a Checklist Feedback Form
Count and Show Improvements
Include Improvement through Columns
Talk to Teacher or Write in the Journal
Prove Success of Additional Help, New Strategy, or Learning
Provide In-depth Analysis and Change
Show Change Based on an Exemplar
Demonstrate Growth through a Portfolio
Creation of New Activities or Tests
Reports on The Students’ Progression through the Standards
Check Off Standards Milestones
Show Whole-Class Learning Successes
Demonstrate Weekly Class Average on a Standard
Post Individual Exemplars
Self-Analysis of Their Own Weekly Scores
Include Present and Past Standard Scores
Document the Standard, Critical Part, or Standards-Based Rubric
Repeat Peer Review through Assessment Tools
Peer Review
Display Classroom Standards Chart for Student’s Progress
Show Their Own Standards Improvement
Formative Grading with Standards
Use Only Proficiency Grading
Weight Grades
Provide Five-Week Standards “Grading” Reports
Grade with Standards Comments
Provide Standards-Based Report Cards
Have Quarterly Individual Student Meetings
Test Periodically on the Standards
Build in Electronic Portfolios
Inform Parents and Guardians about Standards Progress
Have Parents Assess their Child’s Learning
Provide Web-Based Standards Grading
Have Parent Conferences
Provide a Standards Chart
Include Standards Results in a Newsletter
Learning Celebrations
Get Short Wins for Long-Range Success
Celebrate Learning Success for Individuals and the Class
Hold Student Learning Celebrations
Celebrate Class Successes
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