1st Edition

20 Formative Assessment Strategies that Work A Guide Across Content and Grade Levels

By Kate Wolfe Maxlow, Karen L. Sanzo Copyright 2018
    214 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
    by Eye On Education

    214 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
    by Eye On Education

    214 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
    by Eye On Education

    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.

    Contents

    Meet the Authors

    Preface

    eResources

    Introduction: Formatively Assessing Learning

    Part I: Arts: Formative Assessment Strategies

    Integrating Arts into Formative Assessments

    Assessment 1 Postcard Summaries

    Assessment 2 Sculpt It

    Assessment 3 Sing It

    Assessment 4 Who/What Am I This Time

    Professional Development Plan: Arts Tasks

    Part II: Collaborative: Formative Assessment Strategies

    Integrating Collaboration into Formative Assessments

    Assessment 5…And Scene!

    Assessment 6 Check In, Check Out

    Assessment 7 Group Graphic Organizers

    Assessment 8    Learning Upgrade Charts

    Professional Development Plan: Collaborative Tasks

    Part III: Movement: Formative Assessment Strategies

    Integrating Movement into Formative Assessments

    Assessment 9 Four Corners

    Assessment 10 Give One, Get One, Trade!

    Assessment 11 Graffiti Art

    Assessment 12 Human Likert Scale

    Professional Development Plan: Movement Tasks

    Part IV: Select Response: Formative Assessment Strategies

    Integrating Select Response into Formative Assessments

    Assessment 13 ABC Cups

    Assessment 14 Entrance Tickets

    Assessment 15 Exit Ticket

    Assessment 16 Question Hunt

    Professional Development Plan: Select Response Tasks

    Part V: Supply Response: Formative Assessment Strategies

    Integrating Supply Response into Formative Assessments

    Assessment 17 3-2-1

    Assessment 18 I Think I Wonder

    Assessment 19 Sample Student Scenario

    Assessment 20 Would You Rather

    Professional Development Plan: Select Response Tasks

    References

    Biography

    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).

    "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