Research is clear that formative assessment strongly influences achievement. There is, however, confusion about the nature of formative assessment. It is often reduced to standardized tests or “probes ...

Formative assessment began long before blended learning. Teachers have used formative assessment for decades as a method to get feedback about how students are progressing in their learning (see ...

Formative assessment is an assessment form that promotes learning, and is therefore often called "assessment for learning". This form of assessment has learning as its purpose, and this distinguishes ...

The goal of formative assessment is to monitor student learning to provide ongoing feedback that can be used by instructors to improve their teaching and by students to improve their learning. More ...

I love hyphens. Always have. Always will. If used properly, hyphens make things easier to read. This is because hyphenated words let readers know there’s something still coming in a phrase that’s ...

How we assess our students has a profound effect on what they learn and how they learn. Assessment that is primarily summative in its function gives students very little information about their ...

I’ve created a presentation (with some help from my colleagues) on different examples of formative assessment. Note the definition I’m using at the beginning of the presentation: A formative ...