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.

Revolutionize the walkthrough to focus on the endgame of teaching: student learning. Authors Connie M. Moss and Susan M. Brookhart present the proven practice of formative walkthroughs that ask and answer questions that are specific to what the student is learning and doing.

Learn the value of having the observer examine the lesson from the student's point of view and seek evidence of seven key learning components:

-A worthwhile lesson

-A learning target

-A performance of understanding

-Look-fors, or success criteria

-Formative feedback

-Student self-assessment

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In How to Make Decisions with Different Kinds of Student Assessment Data, best-selling author Susan M. Brookhart helps teachers and administrators understand the critical elements and nuances of assessment data and how that information can best be used to inform improvement efforts in the school or district.

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.