This book provides teachers and school leaders with practical, effective, and proven assessment strategies that are immediately implementable in classrooms. You

Learn everything you need to know to implement an integrated system of assessment and grading. The author details the specific benefits of formative assessment

Teams that engage in designing, using, and responding to common formative assessments are more knowledgeable about their own standards, more assessment literate

Presents a variety of assessments, lesson plans, and activities for use across the curriculum.

Formative assessment informs the design of learning opportunities that take students from their existing ideas of science to the scientific ideas and practices