The Formative 5: Everyday Assessment Techniques for Every Math Classroom

by Francis M. Fennell, Beth McCord Kobett (Contributor), Jonathan A. Wray (Contributor)

Move the needle on math instruction with these 5 assessment techniques!

Mathematics education experts Fennell, Kobett, and Wray offer five of the most impactful and proven formative assessment techniques you can implement--Observations, Interviews, "Show Me," Hinge Questions, and Exit Tasks-- every day. You'll find that this palette of classroom-based techniques will truly assess learning and inform teaching.

This book gives you a concise, research-based, classroom-dedicated plan with lots of tools to guide your daily use of The Formative 5. K-8 teachers will learn to

Directly connect assessment to planning and teaching Engineer effective classroom questioning, discussions, and learning tasks Provide success criteria and feedback that moves students forward Includes a book study guide, samples, and a companion website with downloadables and multi-media examples.

200 pages, Paperback

Published January 27, 2017

Reviews

[Annie Ryan · Rating 4 out of 5]

As far as math professional books go, this was a good one. The writing wasn’t too dry, they gave real classroom examples from real teachers, and I have some take-aways to try. I’ll take it!

[Danielle Bailey · Rating 2 out of 5]

I did not find this book useful at all, which is a bummer because I was looking forward to reading it. I found it very redundant and poorly written. On top of it, the examples just seemed silly. In the observation chapter, they gave example notations made from observations that included things like "the student was distracted." How does that help your planning? If anything, twas a waste of time writing that down. What would be helpful is to figure out why the student was distracted. Was the student bored because they knew how to do it already? Was the student missing pre-requisite knowledge to allow them to access the topic? Overall, I do not recommend.

[Karen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lots of info jammed into one book. Looking forward to a book study discussion group where we can talk about how to implement the ideas into my classroom.