Effective classroom formative assessment helps educators make minute-by-minute, day-by-day instructional decisions, but putting it into practice requires both a robust collection of techniques and an understanding of how to use them. In Embedding Formative Assessment, authors Dylan Wiliam and Siobhan Leahy deliver a clear, practical guide for teachers, centred on the five key strategies for improving teacher practice and student achievement: 1) Clarifying, sharing and understanding learning intentions and success criteria; 2) Engineering productive discussion and activities that elicit evidence of learning; 3) Providing feedback that moves learners forward; 4) Activating students as learning resources for each other; and 5) Activating students as owners of their own learning. Then, for each strategy, the authors provide an overview of the strategy and a number of very practical formative assessment techniques for implementing it in F-12 classrooms. Along with guidance on when and how to use the specific techniques, they provide tips, cautions and enhancements to sustain formative assessment. A student reflection form, peer observation form and self-reflection checklist accompany each strategy. No known practice is more effective than classroom formative assessment for producing a significant positive impact on student achievement. Wiliam and Leahy provide the necessary tips and techniques to put it into practice immediately.
Tinto's theory of educational departure and Ogbu's theory of oppositional culture provide the theoretical framework for this study. This study also uses a multi-level approach, examining whether institutional-level characteristics significantly...
No school improvement effort can be effective without addressing school culture, and in this book you'll learn how to put in place the five pillars essential to building a culture of achievement.
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Receive recommendations and real-world examples to strengthen understanding of the ten specific practices outlined in the book.
Helps teachers and administrators become aware of the needs of students using concepts like scaffolding learning, language acquisition, and direct instruction to form a solid educational foundation.
Collaborative Systems of Support
Ce guide s'adressant à l'ensemble de la communauté éducative propose des stratégies pratiques pour permettre de créer une culture d'apprentissage tournée vers le succès de chacun tant à l'échelle de la classe qu'à celle de l ...
"Provides a number of options for evaluating and instructing students in the too often overlooked areas that can and do have a tremendous impact on all students' abilities to make progress in the general education curriculum: social ...
This book considers how the educational experiences and achievement of Māori students in a number of mainstream secondary schools have been improved through a process of theory based, school-wide reform that began in Te Kotahitanga with ...
This book considers how the educational experiences and achievement of Māori students in a number of mainstream secondary schools have been improved through a process of theory based, school-wide reform that began in Te Kotahitanga with ...