Making formative assessment work : effective practice in the primary classroom

✍ Scribed by Kathy Hall; Winifred M Burke

Publisher: Open University Press
Year: 2004
Tongue: English
Leaves: 183
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Drawing on case studies from primary classrooms, this book analyzes how teachers use formative assessment to promote learning. Themes addressed include feedback; power and roles of learners and teachers; self-assessment and peer assessment; and sharing success criteria with learners. The book equips teachers, student teachers, educators, and researchers with a sophisticated grasp of issues in formative assessment Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Introduction Chapter 1: Learning and Assessment; Chapter 2: Formative Assessment and Official Policy: Issues and Challenges; Chapter 3: Formative assessment: What are teachers doing?; Chapter 4: Feedback, Power and the Roles of Teachers and Learners in Formative Assessment; Chapter 5: Helping Learners Understand How Their Work is Judged; Chapter 6: Formative Assessment and Literacy; Chapter 7: Formative Assessment and Numeracy; Chapter 8: Formative Assessment and Science; Chapter 9: Art and Design and Formative Assessment; Chapter 10:Formative Assessment and History; Chapter 11: Assessing What We Value:Learning Dispositions in the Early Years; Chapter 12: Playful Learning, Learning Stories and Making Assessment Visible in the Early Years; Chapter 13: Level Descriptions and Opportunities for Formative Assessment (with Austin Harding) Conclusion
Abstract: Drawing on case studies from primary classrooms, this book analyzes how teachers use formative assessment to promote learning. Themes addressed include feedback; power and roles of learners and teachers; self-assessment and peer assessment; and sharing success criteria with learners. The book equips teachers, student teachers, educators, and researchers with a sophisticated grasp of issues in formative assessment and how they relate to the promotion of pupil learning

📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES

Effective Group Work in Primary School C

📁 Effective Group Work in Primary School Classrooms: The SPRinG Approach

✍ Peter Kutnick, Peter Blatchford (auth.) 📂 Library 📅 2014 🏛 Springer Netherlands 🌐 English

This book offers a challenge to traditional approaches to classroom teaching and pedagogy. The SPRinG (Social Pedagogic Research into Groupwork) project, part of a larger research programme on teaching and learning funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), was developed to enh

Formative Assessment: Making It Happen i

📁 Formative Assessment: Making It Happen in the Classroom

✍ Margaret Heritage 📂 Library 📅 2012 🏛 Corwin 🌐 English

A practical, in-depth guide to implementing formative assessment in your classroom! Formative assessment allows teachers to identify and close gaps in student understanding and move learning forward. This research-based book walks readers through every step of the process and offers illustrativ

Formative Assessment: Making It Happen i

📁 Formative Assessment: Making It Happen in the Classroom

✍ H. Margaret Heritage 📂 Library 📅 2010 🏛 Corwin 🌐 English

A practical, in-depth guide to implementing formative assessment in your classroom! Formative assessment allows teachers to identify and close gaps in student understanding and move learning forward. This research-based book walks readers through every step

Working With Bilingual Children: Good Pr

📁 Working With Bilingual Children: Good Practice in the Primary Classroom

✍ Mahendra K. Verma, Karen P. Corrigan and Sally Firth (Editors) 📂 Library 📅 1995 🏛 Multilingual Matters, Ltd. 🌐 English

This book focuses on the primary school education of bilingual children in Britain. Topics discussed include: pedagogical issues - such as analyzing children's spoken and written English; practical matters - such as helping children settle down in a new environment; and issues relating to the Nation

Effective Behaviour Management in the Pr

📁 Effective Behaviour Management in the Primary Classroom

✍ Fiona Shelton, Simon Brownhill 📂 Library 📅 2008 🏛 Open University Press 🌐 English

Learn a range of effective behaviour management techniques for your classroom! Successful teaching and learning requires a thorough understanding of how to implement a range of effective behaviour management approaches, strategies and philosophies. It is not only essential to put be ab

Using Talk Effectively in the Primary Cl

📁 Using Talk Effectively in the Primary Classroom

✍ Richard Eke, John Lee 📂 Library 📅 2008 🏛 Routledge 🌐 English

Drawing on their research into the quality, quantity and type of talk that happens in the everyday primary classroom, the authors offer insights into the most effective ways of using talk to improve teaching and learning. They consider broad classroom-based issues, such as:what is important about ta