Successful Student Writing through Formative Assessment

Use formative assessment to dramatically improve your students' writing. In Successful Student Writing Through Formative Assessment, educator and international speaker Harry G. Tuttle shows you how to guide middle and high school students through the prewriting, writing, and revision processes using formative assessment techniques that work. This brand new set of strategies includes real writing samples plus easy-to-use applications that will allow you to monitor, diagnose, and provide continual feedback to your students. You'll help them perfect their written communication skills and ready them for further growth. Tuttle offers tips on breaking large writing assignments into several smaller tasks, identifying red flags, varying your feedback methods, and more. Enhance your instruction by assessing students at specific points throughout the writing process, and help them to become better writers as a result!

Dr. Harry Grover Tuttle has taught English writing courses in high schools and colleges to people whose native language is English and not English, both in the United States and in Latin America. For numerous years, Dr. Tuttle edited both an international journal for the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) and a state journal for the New York State Association of Technology in Education.For the past few years, Dr. Tuttle has written formative assessment articles for Grant Wiggins’ Big Idea website. In addition, he has been a technology integration teacher and a technology coordinator for a city district. He also served as president of ISTE’s technology coordinators’ SIG and of the New York State Association for Computers and Technology in Education. He is the author of four books. His last book, Formative Assessment: Responding to Your Students, presents a step-by-step approach to implementing formative assessment in your classroom. Dr. Tuttle focuses on assessing and improving student learning, and he speaks internationally and consults with schools. He enjoys sharing with teachers new avenues of learning through his blog, http://www.eduwithtechn.wordpress.com, where he frequently writes about formative assessment.