Common Formative Assessment: A Toolkit for Professional Learning Communities at Work (How Teams Can Use Assessment Data Effectively and Efficiently)

by Kim Bailey, Chris Jakicic, Richard DuFour (Foreword)

With foreword by Richard and Rebecca DuFour Teams that engage in designing, using, and responding to common formative assessments are more knowledgeable about their own standards, more assessment literate, and able to develop more strategies for helping all students learn. In this conversational guide, the authors offer tools, templates, and protocols to incorporate common formative assessments into the practices of a PLC to monitor and enhance student learning. With Common Formative Assessment, monitor and enhance your students learning. You ll get everything you need to know to create common formative assessments and incorporate them into the practices of your professional learning community. With accessible tools and templates for teams to adjust to their own needs, this is a process that will be easy to facilitate and easy to maintain. Benefits

1. Getting Started as a Collaborative Team
2. Setting the Stage for Common Formative Assessments
3. Power Standards The Essential Outcomes
4. The Unwrapping Process Achieving Collective Clarity on Learning Targets
5. Designing Quality Common Formative Assessments
6. The Big Picture Pacing Guides and Unit Design
7. Now What? Using Data to Make a Difference
8. Getting the Most Bang for Your Assessment Buck Involving Students
9. Sustaining the Work
Appendix Tools for Teams

Genres: Education, Nonfiction, Leadership, Teaching

144 pages, Perfect Paperback

First published October 17, 2011

Reviews

[Shannyn Shuklian · Rating 4 out of 5]

There are great ideas and very specific steps in this book that will be beneficial in getting started using CFA. I didn't like that it was so repetitive throughout the chapters, I felt like they kept adding more in that it didn't need.

[Tara Lenhard · Rating 3 out of 5]

I had to read this book for a Reading Endorsement class, however, I found it much more useful as a guide for PLCs. I think anyone who is a PLC/team/department leader should read this book.

[Matt · Rating 4 out of 5]

I reread this book after coming to a district that was implementing PLCs. It is a toolkit, and should be read as such. Find the chapter you need right now and apply the ideas to your work.

[Lynne · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent book for educators and people in their departments who want to adopt common assessments.

[Trent Mikesell · Rating 3 out of 5]

The authors make a very compelling case for why teachers should use formative assessments more often and why these assessments should be a collaborative effort. Lots of good examples as well as useful reproducibles in the appendix.

[Kristine · Rating 5 out of 5]

A very practical guide for beginning the work on developing common formative assessments. Includes sample forms and step by step advice.