Formative Assessment: Making It Happen in the Classroom 1st Edition by Margaret Heritage, ISBN-13: 978-1412975049

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• Publisher: ‎ Corwin; 1st edition (June 14, 2010)
• Language: ‎ English
• 160 pages
• ISBN-10: 1412975042
  
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-1412975049

A practical, in-depth guide to implementing formative assessment in your classroom!

Formative assessment allows teachers to identify and close gaps in student understanding and move learning forward. This research-based book walks readers through every step of the process and offers illustrative examples across a range of subject areas and grade levels. This book explains how to:

• Clearly articulate learning progressions, learning goals, and success criteria
• Select strategies for assessment and provide quality feedback
• Engage students in self-assessment and self-management
• Create a classroom environment that values feedback as part of the learning process

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.

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