Mastering Formative Assessment Moves

<p>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 <em>formative assessment moves</em> in your classroom with intention and care for all students to help make better instructional decisions on the fly and enjoy more teachable moments?</p> <p>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: </p> <ul> <li><strong><em>Priming</em></strong><em>--</em>building on background knowledge and creating a formative assessment-rich equitable classroom culture</li> <li><strong><em>Posing</em></strong><em>--</em>asking questions in relation to learning targets across the curriculum that elicit Habits of Mind</li> <li><strong><em>Pausing</em></strong><em>--</em>waiting after powerful questions and rich tasks to encourage more student responses by supporting them to think aloud and use speaking and listening skills related to academic language</li> <li><strong><em>Probing</em></strong><em>--</em>deepening discussions asking for elaborations and making connections using sentence frames and starters</li> <li><strong><em> Bouncing</em></strong><em>--</em>sampling student responses systematically to broaden participation manage flow of conversation and gather more soft data for instructional use</li> <li><strong><em>Tagging</em></strong><em>--</em>describing and recording student responses without judgment and making public how students with different styles and needs approach learning in real-time</li> <li><strong><em>Binning</em></strong><em>--</em>interpreting student responses with a wide range of tools categorizing misconceptions and p-prims and using classroom generated data to make more valid and reliable instructional decisions on next steps in the lesson and unit</li> </ul> <p>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.</p>