Checking for Understanding: Formative Assessment Techniques for Your Classroom (Professional Development) - Softcover

Fisher, Douglas; Frey, Nancy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 141660569X ISBN 13: 9781416605690

Publisher: Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development, 2007

Synopsis

If you ever have students who are reluctant to tell you when they don’t understand something—or worse, tell you they understand when they really don't—then here's a book that gives you lots of ways to check for understanding. Learn why typical methods to check for understanding are usually ineffective. And explore formative assessment techniques that work in any subject area and grade level. Extensive classroom examples show you how to use these formative assessments to correct misconceptions, improve learning, and model good study skills for individual students or across multiple classrooms.

About this title

About the Author

Nancy Frey, Ph.D., a Professor at San Diego State University received the 2008 Early Career Achievement Award from the National Reading Conference. Dr. Frey has published in The Reading Teacher, English Journal, Remedial and Special Education, and Educational Leadership. She has co-authored more than fifty books on English Learners (Language Learners in the English Classroom), assessment (Checking for Understanding), writing (Scaffolded Writing Instruction), literacy (Reading for Information in Elementary School) and vocabulary (Learning Words Inside and Out). Dr. Frey teaches a variety of courses on reading instruction and literacy in content areas, classroom management, and supporting students with diverse learning needs. She also was a third grade classroom teacher.

Edition details

• Publisher: Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 141660569X
• ISBN 13: 9781416605690
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 158