The Formative Assessment Handbook Resources to Improve Learning Outcomes for All Students

Activities and reproducible formative assessments to match your current instructional goals

“The Formative Assessment Handbook is a great addition to any teacher’s library. This book fills in the background behind assessments and how to craft assessments toward student learning. For any teacher or new teacher, this book will be a great resource to improve their work with students.”
— Dr. Kyle Dresback, Regional Superintendent for Secondary and Alternative Schools, Former President – Florida Association of School Administrators (2022-2023)

“This book is a teacher’s best friend as it is filled with a treasure trove of actionable insights and practical tools to enhance the learning journey of each student. The book provides a roadmap that guides teachers in how to establish and facilitate a rigorous learning environment through thoughtfully designed and implemented formative assessment tools and techniques. Every educator committed to student growth should have this essential guide on their shelf.”
—Dr. Mariné Avagyan, Leadership Coach and Consultant

Formative assessment—increasingly viewed as critical in today’s K-12 classrooms—is the use of in-the-moment assessment tasks designed to give teachers valuable information on student progress, all while helping students learn.

With this book, you’ll learn the “what,” the “why,” and the “how,” of formative assessment, and you will gain access to a resource that saves you time and energy while improving instructional outcomes. These assessments—complete with concise instructions for implementation—make it simple to identify student needs and have a positive impact on learners’ achievement. New and veteran K-12 teachers alike will benefit from this guide to supporting students, wherever they are in their learning progression.

Explore the "why," "what," and "how" of formative assessments in the classroom

In The Formative Assessment Handbook: Resources to Improve Learning Outcomes for All Students, the authors, with over 40 years of cumulative classroom, school, and district and state-level experience, deliver a crucial toolkit of ready-to-go ideas, activities, and reproducibles that make it easy to implement formative assessment quickly, effectively, and efficiently. You'll also learn what formative assessment is, what it looks like, and why it’s a critical component to student achievement.

The authors explain how to set your classroom up for success and develop & select learning targets and success criteria to create a clear pathway and roadmap for your formative assessments. You’ll also find:

• Up-to-date research supporting the use of formative assessment in the classroom
• Instructions for properly utilizing pre-assessments
• Collaborative routines you can implement during instruction
• Discussions of dialogic teaching and dialectic synergy

An indispensable resource for both new and veteran K-12 educators, The Formative Assessment Handbook will also prove invaluable to administrators and educational coaches.