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Brent Duckor and Carrie Holmberg
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How do you know if students are with you at the beginning, middle, and end of a lesson? Can formative assessment offer a key to better teaching and learning during instruction? What if you could blend different formative assessment moves in your classroom, with intention and care for all students, to help make better instructional decisions on the fly and enjoy more teachable moments?
Educators Brent Duckor and Carrie Holmberg invite you on the journey to becoming a formative assessor. They encourage you to focus on these seven research-based, high-leverage formative assessment moves:
Each chapter explores a classroom-tested move, including foundational research, explaining how and when to best use it and describing what it looks like in practice. Highlights include case studies, try-now tasks, and tips and advice from beginning and seasoned teachers who use these formative assessment moves in their classrooms.
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ISBN-13: 978-1-4166-2262-8
Availability: June 2017
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"In Mastering Formative Assessment Moves, Brent Duckor and Carrie Holmberg elaborate specific instructional moves to help both novice and seasoned teachers deepen their formative assessment practices. Their vision is not to be added on top of other reform initiatives but fits perfectly within equity-focused, ambitious teaching practices aimed at deeper learning. I like that the authors push back against quantitative indicators as the best means for tracking learning progress and offer ways, instead, for triangulating and building upon qualitative windows into student thinking."
—Lorrie Shepard, distinguished professor and dean emerita, University of Colorado Boulder
"For two full decades, formative assessment's prevalence in our schools has fallen far short of its proponents' predictions—particularly given the research evidence supporting its effectiveness. Drawing on their own experiences as practitioner-researchers, Duckor and Holmberg have come up with a marvelous set of implementable guidelines, for both prospective and seasoned teachers, showing how the formative-assessment process can sparkle."
—Jim Popham, professor emeritus, University of California Los Angeles, Graduate School of Education
"The authors have performed a rare feat; they explain the 'why' of formative assessment at a high level, but Duckor and Holmberg also get into the nitty-gritty of actual classroom level practice. Educators, both new and experienced, will find much they can use here."
—Ben Daley, chief academic officer, High Tech High
Brent Duckor is an associate professor in the Department of Teacher Education at San José State University.
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Carrie Holmberg is a lecturer and preservice teacher educator at San José State University.
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formative assessment | instructional strategies | assessment and grading | critical thinking | professional development
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