Checking for Understanding: Formative Assessment Techniques for Your Classroom

✍ Scribed by Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey,

• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 172
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

If you ever have students who are reluctant to tell you when they don’t understand something—or worse, tell you they understand when they really don't—then here's a book that gives you lots of ways to check for understanding. Learn why typical methods to check for understanding are usually ineffective. And explore formative assessment techniques that work in any subject area and grade level. Extensive classroom examples show you how to use these formative assessments to correct misconceptions, improve learning, and model good study skills for individual students or across multiple classrooms.

✦ Table of Contents

Foreword......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
Why Check for Understanding?......Page 12
Using Oral Language to Check for Understanding......Page 26
Using Questions to Check for Understanding......Page 47
Using Writing to Check for Understanding......Page 68
Using Projects and Performances to Check for Understanding......Page 83
Using Tests to Check for Understanding......Page 109
Using Common Assessments and Consensus Scoring to Check for Understanding......Page 131
Afterward Checking Your Own Understanding......Page 145
References......Page 152
Index......Page 162
About the Authors......Page 168