Brookhart, Susan M

Presents more than sixty tools designed to help teachers at any grade level develop an effective formative assessment process that will help them focus on learning goals, evaluate current work in relation to those goals, and reach those goals.

Explains how to assess and grade individual achievement of learning goals after group projects.

"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.

A guide to assessing higher-order thinking skills in kindergarten through twelfth grade that describes principles for assessment and includes guidance on the assessment of analysis, evaluation, creation, logic, reasoning, judgment, problem solving, creativity, and creative thinking.

A complete resource for writing rubrics that assist with learning as well as assess it, and examines how to select from among the many rubrics available for classroom use.

Offers helpful strategies for giving effective and positive feedback to students, describing what kinds of feedback works best, and adjusting feedback to accommodate different levels of learning.