Checking for Understanding: Formative Assessment Techniques for Your Classroom.

Abstract

What teacher hasn't sometimes believe that the entire class understand a lesson, even though only a few students are nodding their heads answering question? Later the teacher is dismayed when many stdents fail a related test. Why aren't students getting it? And, Just as important, why didn't the teacher rekognize the problem? In Checking for understanding, Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey show how to increase students' understanding with the help of creative formative assesment. When used regulary, these types of assesment enable every teacher to determine what students know, what they need to know, and what type of instructional interventions are effective. Fisher and Frey explore a variety of enganging activities that can build understanding, including,interactive writing,portofolios, multimedia presentations,audiences respon system, interactive hand signal, public perfomances, and much more.