Science Formative Assessment
75 Practical Strategies for Linking Assessment, Instruction, and Learning
Edited by:
- Page Keeley - Consultant, Speaker, and Author
248 pages | Corwin
This essential resource provides primary and secondary teachers with 75 user-friendly strategies for using formative assessment to enhance science teaching and learning. The author addresses how to balance opportunity to learn with assessment of learning and describes a rich repertoire of purposeful methods that weave assessment throughout teaching and learning. The book provides guidelines to help teachers become more aware of the different ideas students bring to their learning, see the connections between learners' thinking and the specific ideas included in standards, and provide learning experiences that build a bridge between students' thinking and accepted scientific ideas
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
1. An Introduction to Formative Assessment Classroom Techniques (FACTs)
2. Integrating FACTs With Instruction and Learning
3. Considerations for Selecting, Planning for, and Implementing FACTs
4. Get the FACTs! 75 Science Formative Assessment Classroom Techniques (FACTs)
Appendix
References
Index
"Page Keeley does it again! This book should be on the desk of all classroom teachers. Teachers will reach for it time and again as they use best practices that include appropriate formative assessment strategies."
Orange County Public Schools, Orlando, FL
"After years of struggling with 'Do they get it?' I can now teach and check for student comprehension in an engaging manner. This book allows me to monitor their understanding without waiting for quiz or test results."
Hallsville Middle School, MO