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Making Room For Formative Assessment Processes: A Multiple Case Study, Rob Mcentarffer
Making Room For Formative Assessment Processes: A Multiple Case Study, Rob Mcentarffer
College of Education and Human Sciences: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
This qualitative instrumental multiple case study (Stake, 2005) explored how teachers made room for formative assessment processes in their classrooms, and how thinking about assessment changed during those formative assessment experiences. Data were gathered from six teachers over three months and included teacher interviews, student interviews, participant-observation notes, videos of classroom experiences, and classroom artifacts. These data were analyzed using a category construction method (Merriam, 2009) that involved open coding, axial coding, and finally a cross-case analysis that grouped axial codes according to themes relating to the two research questions. Four case studies describe the process of co-created work with …