The School Leader's Guide to Formative Assessment

Using Data to Improve Student and Teacher Achievement
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-138-14828-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 128 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 414 g

This user-friendly guide shows school leaders how to use formative assessment to improve both student and teacher achievement. With step-by-step information and practical examples, this book will help you develop better assessments that will transform your school. You will learn:

- The advantages of formative assessment

- When and why to use formative assessment

- How to develop valid and reliable assessments

- How to mimic the state assessment schedule

- How to organize and use data effectively

- How to use data to develop teacher leaders

- The appendix features more than ten pages of handy reproducibles that will help you implement formative assessments immediately (also available as free downloads www.routledge.com/9781596672468).

- A curriculum pacing guide

- A presentation template to explain formative assessment to your staff

- A non-mastery report

- A class item analysis graph

- A class profile graph

- A student questionnaire, and more!

Zielgruppe

Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stanley, Todd

Alig, Jana

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 - Why Use Formative Assessments?
Chapter 2 - How You Can Use Formative Assessment
Chapter 3 - Developing Valid and Reliable Assessments
Chapter 4 - Creating the Assessment Environment
Chapter 5 - Organizing and Using Data Effectively
Chapter 6 - Transforming the School
Chapter 7 - Final Words of Advice

Über Autor(innen)

Todd Stanley has been a classroom teacher for the past seventeen years in a myriad of positions. He is currently the Gifted Coordinator for Reynoldsburg City Schools in Reynoldsburg, Ohio.

Dr. Jana Alig has been a special education teacher, a general education teacher, a gifted cluster teacher, an educational consultant, a district special education coordinator, and an elementary principal. She is currently the director of elementary education for Reynoldsburg City Schools in Reynoldsburg, Ohio.