The School Leader's Guide to Formative Assessment: Using Data to Improve Student and Teacher Achievement 1. utgave

This user-friendly guide shows school leaders how to use formative assessment to improve both student and teacher achievement. With step-by-step information and practical examples, this book will help you develop better assessments that will transform your school. You will learn:

• The advantages of formative assessment
• When and why to use formative assessment
• How to develop valid and reliable assessments
• How to mimic the state assessment schedule
• How to organize and use data effectively
• How to use data to develop teacher leaders
• The appendix features more than ten pages of handy reproducibles that will help you implement formative assessments immediately (also available as free downloads www.routledge.com/9781596672468).
• A curriculum pacing guide
• A presentation template to explain formative assessment to your staff
• A non-mastery report
• A class item analysis graph
• A class profile graph
• A student questionnaire, and more!