Explains what formative assessment really is, and how to use this approach to improve teaching, learning, classroom climate, teacher professional development, and school performance.

Available online at: http://find.galegroup.com/gvrl/infomark.do?type=aboutBook&prodId=GVRL&eisbn=9781416607267&userGroupName=tdsb_ascd&version=1.0. Title from e-book home page (viewed March 25, 2011). Electronic reproduction: Farmington Hills, Mich. : Gale, 2002.

Formative assessment : why, what, and whether -- Frameworks for formative assessment : learning progressions -- Level 1 formative assessment : teachers' instructional adjustments -- Level 2 formative assessment : students' learning tactic adjustments -- Level 3 formative assessment : classroom climate shift -- Level 4 formative assessment : schoolwide implementation -- The limitations of formative assessment : what it can't do.