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Discover how to write and use team-designed common formative assessments that help ensure all students master essential skills and concepts.

Choose soft edges over hard edges to deliver assessment for learning and student engagement. Align students’ and teachers’ needs with assessment practices meant to meet learning targets. Use responsible assessment methods to smoothly guide students so confidence grows and their experiences are positive and relevant.

This book provides the pathway for implementing evidence-based grading practices in schools through a straightforward, five-phase creative model.

Learn why classroom assessments should become the primary method for formally measuring student learning and how to revamp them to ensure validity and reliability.

This title focuses on the element of assessing in the Unstoppable Learning model and offers step-by-step actions for reworking your assessment systems.

Discover how to shift to a competency-based education system that replaces traditional, ineffective practices with a new model that fosters personalized, student-centered learning. This learner-centered approach will help you assess performance to ensure learning for all students.

Drawing from evidence-based research findings, distinguished author and leading formative assessment authority Dylan Wiliam clearly and concisely explains how formative assessment, when applied properly, has the greatest impact on student achievement.

This book is designed to focus on implementing, sustaining, and developing effective formative assessment techniques in K–12 classrooms. Teachers and leaders can gain five key strategies to ensure instructional decisions are made so that all students learn at high levels.

Combining educational neuroscience, formative assessment, and differentiated instruction strategies to improve student achievement, Nickelsen and Dickson create a four-step instructional cycle that educators can easily implement.

Acquire actionable steps you can take throughout the school year to alleviate student test anxiety and create brain-friendly classrooms full of focus and learning. Understand what causes testing anxiety and discover how to implement social-emotional learning strategies in the classroom to help prepare students mentally, emotionally, and physically for high-stakes assessments.