Common Formative Assessments: How to Connect Standards-Based Instruction and Assessment
<br /> <p><strong><em>Common formative assessments—the centerpiece of an integrated, standards-based system! <br /> </em></strong><br /> Now you have powerful means to closely align curriculum, instruction, and assessment to the standards essential for student success. This timely resource presents the "big picture" of an integrated, standards-based instruction and assessment system, and offers guidelines for: </p> <ul> <li>Aligning school-based common formative assessments with district benchmarks and large-scale summative assessments</li> <li>Predicting likely student performance on subsequent assessments in time to make instructional modifications</li> <li>Implementing and sustaining common formative assessments within the school’s or district’s culture  </li> <li></li> </ul>