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by Todd Stanley (Author), Jana Alig (Author)
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!
Author Biography
Todd Stanley has been a classroom teacher for the past seventeen years in a myriad of positions. He is currently the Gifted Coordinator for Reynoldsburg City Schools in Reynoldsburg, Ohio.
Dr. Jana Alig has been a special education teacher, a general education teacher, a gifted cluster teacher, an educational consultant, a district special education coordinator, and an elementary principal. She is currently the director of elementary education for Reynoldsburg City Schools in Reynoldsburg, Ohio.
