Informative assessment (often also called formative) is more concerned with learning progress and process than with final outcomes. In this conversational text from two education trainers, practicing teachers will find well-organized strategies for undertaking informative assessment at different periods and levels of intensity. The text opens with background, including a review of the work of major researchers on the topic. The next chapter, on every day assessment, includes applications such as questioning techniques and vocabulary building and comprehension techniques. The next section, addressing assessment over many days, describes strategies for viewing progress such as student journals and portfolio. The final chapter describes rigorous informative assessment, explaining how traditionally summative tests can be altered and/or interpreted using the principles of informative assessment. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)