Course Objectives

• Understand the need to teach for and assess creative and critical thinking.
• Explore the need to teach for and assess deep content knowledge.
• Analyze the need to assess knowledge and skill in combination.
• Explain the role of actionable pre-assessment.
• Survey a variety of formative assessment strategies that can inform classroom instruction.
• Make instructional decisions based on data yielded by formative assessments.
• Understand how effective questioning can yield important formative assessment data.
• Examine how effective student discussions can yield important formative assessment data.
• Compare and contrast the uses and limits of testing as a formative assessment tool.
• Understand the uses of cooperative learning as a formative assessment tool.
• Appraise ways that students can track and manage their progress.
• Explore ways that students can evaluate their progress.

Syllabus

(ASCD PD Online course, 2011) Reimagined self-paced asynchronous online course. Upon completion, learners will be awarded an ASCD Certificate worth up to 20 Clock Hours.