 Unlocking Formative Assessment
Practical strategies for enhancing pupils' learning in the primary classrooms
by Shirley Clarke
Publisher: Hodder Murray
Unlock the power and potential of formative assessment in your own classroom! This highly practical guide explains how to implement assessment strategies that will engage with and support children’s learning, improve progress, and raise confidence and self-esteem.
This book shows how formative assessment—assessment which engages with and helps define the appropriate next steps for the individual child – can be developed as an integral element of good classroom practice. Shirley Clarke takes forward the core themes of planning, sharing learning intentions, pupil self-evaluation, feedback, and target setting, introduced in highly successful Targeting Assessment in the Primary Classroom, and sets them in the context of literacy, numeracy, and Curriculum 2000. She then focuses on the use of questioning as a tool for effective teaching, ways of raising pupils’ self-esteem, and the whole-school frameworks for monitoring progress.
Each chapter distils research findings and classroom practice, giving numerous examples, strategies, and practical solutions, plus suggestions for school policies based on feedback from hundreds of teachers. Down to earth and direct, the book shows how formative assessment complements formal, summative assessment—and how it can bring a dramatic culture shift to teaching and learning in your own classroom.
120038 · $32.00
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