Common Formative Assessment 

Common Formative Assessment

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.

• Gain strategies for how to identify and unwrap power standards to use as the basis for learning targets and common formative assessments.
• Use protocols and reproducibles to facilitate the formative assessment process.
• Get tools to create pacing guides and to design units for conducting and responding to assessments.
• Explore ideas on how to encourage students to become actively involved in the assessment process.

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“Bailey and Jakicic have skillfully addressed the challenge of creating quality common formative assessments. This practical toolkit filled with examples and clear explanations is what every team needs to improve student learning.”

“Common Formative Assessment is one of the best toolkits for collaborative teams of educators committed to the PLC process that we have encountered. It provides the specificity and insights that can only come from authors who have not only led the PLC at Work™ process in their own school districts, but have also helped schools at all levels, in a variety of different settings, overcome the challenges inherent in deep implementation. Common Formative Assessment presents a compelling case for engaging educators in the kind of work that actually leads to improved student achievement.”

“A terrific resource for teachers at every level. The authors unwrap and unravel every aspect of using common formative assessments in the classroom. In a very practical, accessible, and easy-to-understand manner, this book unlocks one of the most effective strategies we know of for helping all kids learn.”

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