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PROFESSIONAL BOOKS - Detail Page Targeting Assessment in the Primary Grades: Strategies for Planning Assessment Pupil Feedback and Target Setting by Shirley Clarke
DETAILS ABOUT THIS BOOK: Description Contents Author Bio Introduction BROWSE by Author by Subject by Title Professional Books Introduction COURSE ADOPTION Exam/Desk copy OTHER Permissions Submissions Exhibit Schedule Sales Representatives CHILDREN'S BOOKS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT	Other Books by The Author Enriching Feedback in the Primary Classroom Unlocking Formative Assessment	By Shirley Clarke, University of London This guide places the different styles and purposes of assessment in the context of school-based curriculum planning, teaching, and target-setting, and aims to put the child at the heart of the process. 1998 pb 128 pages Item# 532 ISBN: 0-340-72531-1 $25.00 [Add to Cart] View Cart Other Subject Related Books Dancing with the Pen Enriching Feedback in the Primary Classroom Unlocking Formative Assessment Reading in Junior Classes


TOP Description Contents Author Bio Introduction	Description: This book gives you the practical strategies you need to plan effectively and to implement assessment processes that will advance children’s learning and improve your teaching. This highly practical guide places the different styles and purposes of assessment in the wider context of school-based curriculum planning, teaching and target setting, and puts the child at the heart of assessment processes. The book first gives an overview of the various types and stages of assessment, showing how each feeds into the next. It then looks in turn at: Planning Sharing learning intentions Pupils’ self-evaluation Marking and feedback Target setting Tracking progress Each chapter outlines purposes, principles and practice, taking account of current initiatives and recent research and discussing strengths, weaknesses, manageability and impact on teaching and learning. The book also looks at baseline testing, benchmarking, value-added and summative assessment. Highly accessible and down to earth, it contains useful summary sections, excerpts from vital documents and examples of alternative formats and good classroom practice
TOP Description Contents Author Bio Introduction	Table of Contents: Introduction The purpose of this book Principles of Assessment Assessment definitions and purposes The assessment policy 1 Planning Long-term plans Schemes of work Medium-term plans The short-term plan 2 Sharing Learning Intentions with Children The impact of sharing learning intentions Developing success criteria Training children to think self-evaluatively How do you know when they know it? 3 Marking and Feedback Marking as an assessment record Marking as feedback The marking policy 4 Target Setting How it all works Target setting at school level Target setting at class level Target setting at pupil level 5 The Record of Achievement Using the Record of Achievement 6 Summative Assessment and its uses Baseline assessment Benchmarking Value-added information Summative tests Conclusion References
TOP Description Contents Author Bio Introduction	Author Bio: Shirley Clarke is an Associate of the Institute of Education, University of London, and is much in demand as an education consultant, in the UK and internationally. Her course and training days for teachers, and ongoing involvement in action research, give her a down-to-earth perspective on day-to-day classroom realities. Her books are acclaimed by primary teachers as highly readable and full of common sense. She makes accessible a wealth of ideas, research and practical assessment expertise, giving teachers the ‘how to’ information they really need TOP