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Updated Edition of Bestseller

Formative Assessment

Making It Happen in the Classroom

Second Edition
By: Margaret Heritage, Corwin

Written for teachers and those who support them, this book helps all educators develop the skills for successful formative assessment across a range of subjects and grade levels.

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Product Details

Grade Level: PreK-12
ISBN: 9781071813676
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2021
Page Count: 176
Publication date: September 23, 2021

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Description

Develop the knowledge and skills needed for successful formative assessment

Formative assessment is a process used by teachers and students to keep learning moving forward. In the 10 years since the first edition of Formative Assessment was published, the practice has become a mainstay in classrooms, but that does not mean that it is easy.

Education expert Margaret Heritage walks readers through every step of implementation and offers numerous examples that illustrate formative assessment practices across a range of subjects and grade levels. She explains how to articulate learning progressions, goals, and success criteria; select assessment strategies and provide quality feedback; engage students in self-assessment and self-management; and create an environment that values feedback as part of the learning process. Based on the latest research, this second edition addresses:

College and career readiness standards, Common Core State Standards, and Next Generation Science Standards
Equity and individual learning needs
Discipline-based and student-centered formative assessment
Social and emotional learning

Written for teachers and those who support them, this book will help all educators develop the skills necessary to get students on the path to success.

Key features

Offers specific examples of the formative assessment process in action in a range of subject areas
Addresses the place of formative assessment within the broader assessment picture
Discusses and gives examples of effective feedback as an essential part of formative assessment
Shows how to engage students in self-assessment and self-management so they can participate in keeping their learning on course
Examines how educators and school leaders can support classroom implementation of formative assessment

Author(s)

Margaret Heritage

Margaret Heritage is an independent consultant in education. For her entire career, her work has spanned both research and practice. In addition to spending many years in her native England as a practitioner, a university teacher, and an inspector of schools, she had an extensive period at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), first as principal of the laboratory school of the Graduate School of Education and Information Students and then as an Assistant Director at UCLA’s National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards and Student Testing. She has also taught courses in the Departments of Education at UCLA and Stanford University. She is a regular presenter at conferences across the United States and internationally. Her most recent book with Corwin, co-authored with Christine Harrison, is The Power of Assessment for Learning: Twenty Years of Research and Practice in UK and US Classrooms.