Product Description: Real-Time Decisions: Educators Using Formative Assessment to Change Lives NOW! shares the stories of nine schools and districts and how they used formative assessment to promote student achievement and generate results. These authentic stories take place in urban, suburban, and rural schools and districts serve as models those who want to introduce formative assessment into their setting, learn best practices for refining current initiatives, or develop system-wide implementation of formative assessment practices...read more

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Product Description: This volume explores the recent national trend toward adoption of performance assessments. Embraced at all levels of educational decision-making--state, district, school, and teacher--the shapes these assessments take and the affects they have at the classroom level can differ significantly from one setting to another...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Busick, Kathleen U., Stiggins, Richard J.

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Product Description: Making a Difference presents a comprehensive account of the best practices and lessons learned in outcomes assessment. The book brings together detailed first-person accounts by the most successful practitioners in the field to show how assessment findings have been used to improve programs, student services, and student learning...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)