Use formative assessment to guide successful teaching and learning in science!
Outlining the formative assessment process and providing strategies for embedding assessment into the K-8 standards-based science curriculum, this essential resource demonstrates how teachers can use formative assessments to modify instruction, monitor student progress, and evaluate learning. This user-friendly guide offers teachers discussions, reflection activities, and classroom strategies to:
• Assess student understanding using observation checklists, questioning strategies, notebooks, reports, graphic organizers, projects, and performance tasks • Differentiate science instruction to reach all learners • Use rubrics to uncover student strengths and weaknesses • Collect student data to inform instructional decisions
