Activating Assessment for All Students: Innovative Activities, Lesson Plans, and Informative Assessment

Hamm (science and mathematics, San Francisco State U.) and Adams, an educational consultant who has taught at McGill U., Canada, present a guide for teachers and administrators to using formative assessment practices to differentiate teaching, learning, and assessment. They focus on elementary and middle school science and math instruction, and how informative assessment can be a useful technique for integrating the assessment of learning with teaching, by providing information before, after, and during the teaching process. They discuss differentiated learning, changing assessment practices, and entry points into knowledge about science and math; performance assessment techniques; and how to design a lesson plan, with plans in each chapter. Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Mary Hamm is a professor of science and mathematics at San Francisco State University. She has published more than ten books and eighty journal articles on these topics. Dennis Adams is an educational consultant who has taught classes at McGill University in Montreal. He is author of more than twelve books and a hundred journal articles on various educational topics.