The Formative 5: Everyday Assessment Techniques for Every Math Classroom (Corwin Mathematics Series): Everyday Assessment Techniques for Every Math Classroom - Softcover

Fennell, Francis M.; McCord Kobett, Beth; Wray, Jonathan A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1506337503 ISBN 13: 9781506337500

Publisher: Corwin, 2017

Synopsis

Move the needle on math instruction with these 5 assessment techniques! 

Mathematics education experts Fennell, Kobett, and Wray offer five of the most impactful and proven formative assessment techniques you can implement—Observations, Interviews, “Show Me,” Hinge Questions, and Exit Tasks— every day. You’ll find that this palette of classroom-based techniques will truly assess learning and inform teaching.

This book gives you a concise, research-based, classroom-dedicated plan with lots of tools to guide your daily use of The Formative 5. K-8 teachers will learn to

• Directly connect assessment to planning and teaching
• Engineer effective classroom questioning, discussions, and learning tasks
• Provide success criteria and feedback that moves students forward

Includes a book study guide, samples, and a companion website with downloadables and multi-media examples.

About this title

About the Authors

Francis (Skip) Fennell is professor of education and Graduate and Professional Studies, emeritus at McDaniel College in Maryland. He is a former classroom teacher, principal, and supervisor of instruction, and past president of the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators (AMTE), the Research Council on Mathematics Learning (RCML), and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM). He is a recipient of the Mathematics Educator of the Year Award from the Maryland Council of Teachers of Mathematics (MCTM), the Glenn Gilbert National Leadership Award from NCSM: Leadership in Mathematics Education, the Excellence in Leadership and Service in Mathematics Teacher Education Award from AMTE, the James Heddens Distinguished Service Award from RCML, and Lifetime Achievement Awards from both MCTM and NCTM. Skip’s many publications including Achieving Fluency: Special Education and Mathematics (NCTM, 2011), and The Formative 5: In Action (Corwin, 2024) have been influenced by his classroom experiences and decades long focus on assessment, number sense, fractions, elementary mathematics specialists and teacher education.

Beth McCord Kobett serves as Professor and Dean in the School of Education at Stevenson University, where she works closely with early childhood, elementary, and middle school preservice teachers. She brings experience as a classroom teacher, mathematics specialist, and university supervisor.  Beth served on the NCTM Board and served as president of Association of Maryland Mathematics Teacher Educators. Beth has authored ten mathematics education books and supports professional learning efforts nationwide. She has been honored with awards such as the MCTM Mathematics Educator of the Year and Stevenson’s Rose Dawson Award for Excellence in Teaching. Deeply committed to her students, she strives to create a supportive, strengths-based learning environment that fosters curiosity, collaboration, and meaningful growth. 

From the Back Cover

This is a brief guide to the five most doable, impactful and proven techniques for assessing students’ mathematical understanding that teachers can implement every day.

Edition details

• Publisher: Corwin
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1506337503
• ISBN 13: 9781506337500
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 200