How to Assess Your Students: Making Assessment Work For You

How to Assess Your Students: Making Assessment Work For You

Oxford Teaching Guides

How to Assess Your Students provides classroom practitioners with concise, practical guidance on a perennially important issue which remains central to teaching success. Written by a former teacher and expert within teacher education and assessment for learning, it leads readers through the assessment journey – from what it means and its practical implementation, through to making successful use of data to inform students’ learning. The book: – Explains the essentials of assessment, including (a) the features of assessment culture in the classroom and (b) strategies to develop a formative assessment culture in classrooms – Provides practical guidance on how to prepare effective assessment activities and tasks – Shows how we can learn from assessment data, and use it to provide students with helpful, constructive feedback – Empowers teachers to feel confident in using assessment as a progressive tool, helping them to make proactive decisions about student learning and progress.

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Andrew Chandler-Grevatt – Oxford University Press