Built on the process featured in Common Formative Assessment: A Toolkit for PLCs at Work™, this book demonstrates how educators can develop effective and efficient assessments. The authors simplify assessment development to give teacher teams the confidence to write and use team-designed common formative assessments that help ensure all students master essential skills and concepts.
- Learn the different purposes that wide-angle questions and close-up questions serve in reaching assessment goals.
- Understand different types of assessments and what the data gained from each of them can reveal.
- Frame assessment and feedback methods to pursue the end goal of learning for all.
- Use templates and protocols to unwrap essential standards, create performance tasks, plan appropriate assessments, and analyze data.
- Discover a road map that can help guide your work with common assessments.