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Focus On Student Learning - Instructional Strategies Series

Book Two:
60 Formative Assessment Strategies

By Natalie Regier, M. Ed.

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@ 2012 Regier Educational Resources

 Focus on Student Learning - Instructional Sfi'ategies Series

Thble of Contents

Note to Teachers 4
Who is Natalie Regier? 4
How does assessment fit into instruction? 4
What is formative assessment? 5
When are formative assessment strategies used? 5
Why are formative assessment strategies used? 5
How do I determine what types of formative assessment strategies to use? 6
How can teachers use the assessment information? 6_
How can students use the assessment information? 6

FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT STRATEGIES FOR TEACHERS 7

1: ABC Brainstorming 7
2: Analogies 7
3: Checklists 7
4: Choral Response 8
5: Cloze Procedure 8
6: Concept Maps 9
7: Conferences 9
8: Computer Surueys 9
9: Demonstration Stations 9
10:Discussions 9
11: Double Entry Journals l0
12:Drawings 10
13: Email Questions 10
1 4: ExamplesA.tron-Examples 10
15: Exit Cards 10
16: Fist of Five 1l
l7: Four Corners ll
l8: Graffiti Wall 11
19: Graphic Organizers t2
20: Individual Whiteboards t2
21 :Inside-Outside Circle 12
22:Leaming Logs 12
23: List Ten Things r3
24: Matching Activities 13
25: Observations 13
26: One Minute Essays 13
27: One Minute Fluency t4
28: One Sentence Summaries 14
29: Open-Ended Questions 14

6 0 F or maliv e A s se s sment Str ate gie s

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30: Paper Pass t4

31: Peer-Assessments t4
32: Placemats 15
33: Problem Solving 15
34: Questionnaires 15
35: Questioning 15
36: Quick Writes 15
37: Refleetion Journals l6
38: Repeat Pre-assessments t6
39: Response Cards 16
40: Self-Assessments 16_
41: Sentence Prompts t6
42: Show ofHands 17
43: Student Composed Questions t7
44:Teach a Friend t7
45: Think-Pair-Share l7
46: Three Facts and a Fib t7
47:Three Minute Pause 18
48: Three Things 18
49:.3,2,1 18
50: Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down 18
51: Traffic Light 18
52: Turn and Thlk 18
53: WhipAround t9

F'ORMATIVE ASSESSMENT STRATEGIES FOR STUDENTS t9

54: Ask t9
55: Checklists t9
56: Journals t9
57: Process Exemplars 20
58: Product Exemplars 20
59: Self-Marking Quizzes 20
60: Writing Continuums 20

60 Formqtive Assessment Strategies

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