Effective classroom formative assessment helps educators make minute-by-minute, day-by-day instructional decisions. This clear, practical guide for teachers centres on five key instructional strategies, along with an overview of each strategy and practical formative assessment techniques for implementation in K–12 classrooms. The authors provide guidance on when and how to use the techniques, tips, cautions and enhancements to sustain formative assessment.

Educators will learn how to:

• clarify, share and understand learning intentions and success criteria
• engineer productive discussions and activities that elicit evidence of learning
• provide feedback that moves learners forward
• activate students as learning resources for each other
• activate students as agents of their own learning.