Activating Assessment for All Students: Innovative Activities, Lesson Plans, and Informative Assessment - Softcover

Hamm, Mary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1607092093 ISBN 13: 9781607092094

Publisher: R&L Education, 2009

Synopsis

Hamm and Adams present models to help teachers identify student learning problems_recognizing when to re-teach, when to move ahead, and when to explain or give more examples. Activating Assessment for All Students takes all of these into account when it provides differentiated science/math methods and goes on to suggest ways that formative assessment practices can inform differentiated teaching, learning, and assessment. These methods promote success for more students by helping teachers develop informative assessment for lessons and related tools for reaching the varying levels of student competencies within their classes. This book builds on the expanding knowledge of what works in classrooms and suggests approaches that can open up individual and group possibilities for science and mathematics instruction. It intends to help you answer the following questions: * What is differentiated instructional assessment? * How can I amplify the results of DI by using formative assessments? * How might quality assessment tools (like portfolios) benefit all students? * How will I know that differentiated formative assessment works?

About this title

About the Authors

Mary Hamm has taught at Ohio State University and the University of Colorado. More recently, she has been teaching at San Francisco State University. She has worked on both math and science standards and has published more than a dozen books and eighty journal articles on these subjects.

Dennis Adams, former Fulbright Scholar, has taught at the elementary school level. In higher education, he has taught at the University of Minnesota, University of Maine, and McGill University in Montreal. He did graduate work at Harvard University and has a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is author of more than 30 books and more than 100 journal articles on various educational topics.

Edition details

• Publisher: R&L Education
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1607092093
• ISBN 13: 9781607092094
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 156