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Formative Assessment Ideas

For help in assessing what a child or student already knows, and what you need to teach next, 'Formative Assessment Ideas' is exactly what busy teachers have been looking for. This book is a must if you want all your students to succeed at their own level, whether gifted or talented, of average ability, or a student with learning or physical needs.
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Contents

Formative Assessment – Assessment for Learning
  • The Home Visit or the Child’s Initial Visit to School – Learning Starts When We Are Born – What Does the Child Already Know When She First Comes to School?
  • Assessment through Observation – Discover Students’ Multiple Intelligences and Their Strengths and Weaknesses
Summative Assessment- Test and Assessment Results
  • Continuous and Comprehensive Assessment – Leading to Accumulative Assessment
  • End of Topic Assessment – Recording Students’ Knowledge, Skills, Understanding, and Attitudes
Diagnostic Assessments
  • Published Diagnostic Tests – Subjects and Verbal Reasoning
  • Students with Additional Needs (Special Educational Needs) – Examples
  • Group Assessment – Assess Students’ Multiple Intelligences Using a Rubric
  • Authentic Problem Solving and Assessment – Expert Assessment of Real-Life Situations
  • Students’ Self-Assessment and Peer Assessment – Let Your Students Help You
  • Multiple Intelligences Assessment of Knowledge, Skills, Understanding, and Attitudes
  • Creating Your Own Subject-Specific Assessments (Example: English Novel)
  • End of Lesson Evaluation – to Help You Plan for the Next Lesson
  • Target Setting and Monitoring – Use Assessment to Raise Standards and Set Goals
Accumulative Assessment
  • Tests and Examinations – Assessment against Criteria Laid Down in the Syllabus
  • Different Ways of Assessing – Assessment through Different Tasks
  • Collating the Evidence – Tracking Software and a Process Folio – Collecting Evidence and Recording Progress
  • Using Assessment to Raise Standards – International Benchmark Tests
Conclusion – Assessment Leading to Planning for the Differentiated Classroom
Getting Started
  • Explanations and Definitions
  • Recognising Difference – We Are Born Different, and We Develop Differently
  • What Do You Know About Your Students?
  • Assessment – Building on What Students Already Know and Can Do
  • Multiple Intelligences and Learning Styles – Teaching the Same Thing in Different Ways
  • Preparing to Write Your Lesson Plan
  • Lesson Plan Template
Example Lesson Plans
  • Kindergarten
  • English Language Learners
  • Secondary English 1
  • Secondary English 2
  • Primary Mathematics
  • Secondary Mathematics
  • Primary Science
  • Secondary Environmental Studies
  • Primary Social Studies – Geography
  • Secondary Social Studies – History
Different Educational Needs
  • Personalised Learning and Individual Education Plans (IEP)
  • Recognising Differences – Career Opportunities

Also Available in the 'Changing Education' Series

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  • Bilingual version of 'Formative Assessment Ideas' - English/Arabic
  • Teaching English as an Additional Language: Multiple intelligences ideas
  • Pre-school: Teaching and learning ideas for the under fives
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