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

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.

Table of Contents:
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

About the Author :
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).

Review :
"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