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This book, in my opinion is a must in every classroom. It includes insights into new techniques for AfL and allows the teacher to chose what is best for them and their students.
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This book does what it says on the cover, showing teachers how to make formative assessment a natural part of the teaching process, by embedding it into the way they teach. It is full of very practical strategies, much more so than any other publication by Black or Wiliam or both.
The first chapter is a gem that makes the case that the best way of improving our education system is to improve the teaching of the current teachers in that system: the "love the one you're with" strategy. The rest of the book looks at practical ways to do the following
* Clarifying, sharing, and understanding learning intentions and success criteria.
* Eliciting evidence of learners' achievement
* Providing feedback that moves learning forward
* Activating students as instructional resources for one another
* Activating students as owners of their own learning.
This book is written by the world's expert on formative assessment, yet it is so practical, and when I've told teachers about the methods they are inspired and ready to try them. I write books myself on teaching methods and I'm not easily impressed, but you have to have this book. It will make a great difference to your students and to you.
The first chapter is a gem that makes the case that the best way of improving our education system is to improve the teaching of the current teachers in that system: the "love the one you're with" strategy. The rest of the book looks at practical ways to do the following
* Clarifying, sharing, and understanding learning intentions and success criteria.
* Eliciting evidence of learners' achievement
* Providing feedback that moves learning forward
* Activating students as instructional resources for one another
* Activating students as owners of their own learning.
This book is written by the world's expert on formative assessment, yet it is so practical, and when I've told teachers about the methods they are inspired and ready to try them. I write books myself on teaching methods and I'm not easily impressed, but you have to have this book. It will make a great difference to your students and to you.
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Best book ever on formative assessment in the classroom
15 Oct 2011
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I admired everything about this book, including the context that educators must seek new ways to help students learn at higher levels not because those educators have been deficient or uncaring but because the students they serve face future challenges unlike those of previous generations. Wiliam establishes the research base for his recommendations but translates that research into very practical applications that readers could begin to apply immediately in their schools and classrooms. The book is a tremendous tool to help veteran teachers better utilize the power of assessment to improve student learning. I recommend that collaborative teams of teachers study the strategies Wiliam presents, work together to implement some of the strategies in their classroom, gather evidence of the impact of the strategies on student learning, and then collectively analyze that evidence in order to become more effective in using the strategies. I also highly recommend that this book be required reading for every undergraduate student planning to enter teaching.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
compelling book
2 Jan 2012
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This is a truly compelling book! So many of Wiliam's ideas resonated with me, and several ideas challenged my current thinking. I read this over a long weekend. I had planned to begin implementing the strategies in this book as I was writing the following week's lesson plans. However, it didn't work that way. When I went to school Monday morning and began teaching the lessons that I had planned BEFORE reading the book, I realized that if I wanted each student in my classroom to meet the learning targets, I had to totally revise all of my lessons for that week! The book had changed my thinking radically and decisively. I am amazed to think about how my lessons have changed in just one month. I am so glad that I read this book. Each teacher should read this book!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
A Book Whose Time is Now
18 April 2012
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After having taught for 40 years, I finally discovered a singular, research-based, answer to my questions about accurately assessing students in such a way as to encourage them to study for knowledge than merely for the grade. Professor Wiliam's Embedded Formative Assessment is a gem of a book for both the beginning as well as the seasoned teacher, providing not merely the "how"s but also the "why"s of formative assessment. It is clearly written, packed with very useful strategies that can be put to work "tomorrow," and substantive in its explanations. How I wish this book were available in 1970 when I earned my teaching certificate! After having taught within the German system through Fulbright, I returned home with some answers about non-toxic assessment practices, but after having read Professor Wiliam's book, I just wish I had the opportunity to return to the classroom and put into practice the brilliant suggestions he offers that turn students into active learners rather than grade chasers. And as a former staff development director, I recognize the value of this book as a basis for a continual segment in a comprehensive staff development program. I strongly recommend Wiliam's book for the following:
· Student Teachers who wish to learn how to assess accurately;
· Education Professors charged with teaching student teachers how to assess students accurately and fairly;
· Staff Development Directors who wish to have a powerful impact on the practices of experienced teachers;
· Department Chairs wishing to get some assessment consistency within their departments;
· Principals who wish to give their schools some very useful directions in order to curb the number of "failing" students in their schools.
I cannot give enough praise for the content of Dylan Wiliam's book, Embedded Formative Assessment, but I will recommend it to any educator who wants to change the culture in her students from one of "study-for-the-grade" to "study-for-the-knowledge."
· Student Teachers who wish to learn how to assess accurately;
· Education Professors charged with teaching student teachers how to assess students accurately and fairly;
· Staff Development Directors who wish to have a powerful impact on the practices of experienced teachers;
· Department Chairs wishing to get some assessment consistency within their departments;
· Principals who wish to give their schools some very useful directions in order to curb the number of "failing" students in their schools.
I cannot give enough praise for the content of Dylan Wiliam's book, Embedded Formative Assessment, but I will recommend it to any educator who wants to change the culture in her students from one of "study-for-the-grade" to "study-for-the-knowledge."
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