Learn how to formatively assess and grade group work, including learning skills, group interaction skills, and individual achievement.

Whether you're already familiar with rubrics or not, this book is a complete resource for writing rubrics that assist with learning as well as assess it. Plus, you'll learn how to wisely select from among the many rubrics available for classroom use.

Despite feedback's demonstratively positive effects on student performance, research on the specific components of successful feedback practice is in short supply. In Using Feedback to Improve Learning, Ruiz-Primo and Brookhart highlight real-world examples and provide critical characteristics of feedback strategies to affirm classroom feedback's positive effect on student learning. This how-to guide provides preservice and in-service teachers with empirically-supported techniques for using feedback as a part of formative assessment in the classroom.

Whether you teach young students or teens, this updated edition will help you provide feedback that is engaging, informative, and, above all, effective.