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Common Formative Assessment, Second Edition
A Toolkit for Professional Learning Communities at Work®
This book will help collaborative teams meet the challenges of a new landscape of education—one in which we’re now familiar with formative assessment and we strive to improve our assessment design and allow data to inform instruction to best support student achievement.
Benefits
- Identify successful assessment tools for implementation.
- Understand the role of assessments in advancing student learning.
- Reflect on assessment processes and the standards driving instruction.
- Access a wide variety of assessment designs and strategies for guiding collaboration.
- Utilize data-driven jump-start resources and templates that suit teams’ needs.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Getting Started as a Collaborative Team
Chapter 2: Setting the Stage for Common Formative Assessments
Chapter 3: Determining Priorities and Essential Standards
Chapter 4: Achieve Collective Clarity With the Unwrapping Process
Chapter 5: Designing Quality Common Formative Assessments
Chapter 6: Going Deeper—Advanced Processes for Designing Assessments
Chapter 7: Using Data to Make a Difference
Chapter 8: Building Student Self-Efficacy in Learning
Chapter 9: Strengthening and Sustaining the Work
Appendix: Tools for Teams
STUDY GUIDE
Common Formative Assessment, Second Edition Study Guide
REPRODUCIBLES
Chapter 1
- Figure 1.2: Protocol for Identifying Norms
- Figure 1.3: Team Meeting Agenda Template
- Figure 1.4: SMART Goal Planning Tool
- Figure 3.2: Protocol for Identifying Essential Standards
- Figure 4.6: Protocol for Unwrapping a Standard
- Figure 4.7: Unwrapping Template
- Figure 5.2: Assessment Planning Template
- Figure 5.6: Common Formative Assessments Checklist
- Figure 5.7: Sample Protocol for Developing an Assessment
- Figure 6.1: Five-Step Team Unit Planning Process
- Figure 6.2: Workflow For Backward Unit Planning
- Figure 6.11: Team Process for Developing Rubrics
- Figure 7.5: Team Protocol for Analyzing Assessment Results
- Figure 7.7: Vertical and Singleton Team Protocol for Analyzing Assessment Results
- Figure 8.1: Sample Unit Overview Sheet
- Figure 8.4: Student Goal-Setting Sheet
- Figure 8.5: Planning Sheet for Goal-Setting Opportunities
SUGGESTED RESOURCES
BOOKS
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