This study features a collection of eight case studies of exemplary cases from secondary schools as well as international literature reviews and policy analysis related to formative assessment – the frequent assessments of student progress to identify learning needs and shape teaching.  It examines such issues as benefits and barriers for using formative assessment, policy frameworks and implications, and formative assessment in practice.  Achievement gains attributed to formative assessment are reported as being quite high,...

A description of the CEF. 12 pages PDF color.

Contents

Part 1: Framework and how did it evolve? What is the CEF ?

Part 2: How can teachers make use of the CEF to help achieve their classroom goals?

Part 3: How can the CEF help students reflect on their learning?

Part 4: Further suggestions

Cultural differences, childhood memories, crime and punishment, and modern technology . . . these valuable topics and more keep students' interest throughout this course! Now in a three-level series, this full-color, engaging program encourages learners to interact naturally through pair and group tasks. Each level offers 40 to 60 hours of instruction.

Humor can be used as a systematic teaching or assessment tool in your classroom and course Web site. It can shock students to attention and bring deadly, boring course content to life. Since some students have the attention span of goat cheese, we need to find creative online and offline techniques to hook them, engage their emotions, and focus their minds and eyeballs on learning.
This book offers numerous techniques on how to effectively use humor in lectures and in-class activities, printed materials, course Web sites and course tests and exams.