This article addresses written feedback to students' drafts and provides insight into teachers' formative assessment practices. Data are taken from a large cross-disciplinary project on writing and assessment in Norway and comprises a sample of 7th graders' writing processes from 11 schools. Teachers' comments are categorised according to…

Individual written feedback in the form of teacher marking of student classwork is widely understood to benefit students, but remains under-researched. We analysed how 1736 student science activities within 82 seventh-grade classrooms from a representative sample of 57 primary schools in Buenos Aires, Argentina, were marked. Results indicated that…

This book by Sheryn Spencer Waterman follows the bestselling "Handbook on Differentiated Instruction for Middle and High Schools." With numerous examples and strategies, it is an all-inclusive manual on assessing student readiness, interests, learning and thinking styles. It includes examples of: (1) Pre-, Formative and Summative assessments; (2)…