Formative Assessment Strategies for Every Classroom: An Ascd Action Tool

"What are the specific skills and strategies students need to learn in order to assess themselves in the classroom, and how do you teach them those strategies in the context of subject area material? Here's a resource that answers those questions and gives you more than 50 tools to use with students in every grade level and subject. A series of Teacher Tools helps you create high-quality classroom assignments, use appropriate intervention strategies, and give students good feedback. Then a series of Student Tools help you teach formative assessment strategies that students can use when an assignment is given, during direct instruction, during group or individual work, before a summative assessment (such as a major test), and after a summative assessment"--Publisher.