Equity and Formative Assessments Formative assessments play a vital role in equity-minded assessment by supporting all students in meeting high expectations, regardless of their backgrounds. They ...

Formative assessment can be a time saver and time optimizer, if you use it to either replace more formal assessment [or] replace the period of not knowing where students are and what they’re ...

Formative assessment is squishy. And squishy things don't easily yield to standardized measurement. And that creates an awkward situation in an era of numbers-driven accountability.

Designing Formative Assessments When designing formative assessments, instructors need to think about aligning the assessed knowledge and skills, as well the assessment format itself, with desired ...

Jasmin Decristan, Eckhard Klieme, Mareike Kunter, Jan Hochweber, Gerhard Büttner, Benjamin Fauth, A. Lena Hondrich, Svenja Rieser, Silke Hertel, Ilonca Hardy, Embedded Formative Assessment and ...

And unlike other data assessment tools, Formative lets students see their own performance against standards. Normally, students are unaware of their own growth towards these learning standards.

Formative assessment provides a means to successfully scaffold learning. Unfortunately, few teachers understand the pedagogical implications of such scaffolding or their role in utilizing formative ...

Assessments in education measure student achievement. These may take the form traditional assessments such as exams, or quizzes, but may also be part of learning activities such as group projects or ...

As personalized learning becomes a more mainstream pedagogy in K–12 classrooms, teachers have started to adapt assessment processes to get a deeper look at student growth. When it comes to assessing ...

Summative assessments are implemented at the end of a unit, course, or instructional period to evaluate how well students have achieved the learning objectives, such as knowledge, skills, and ...