Effective formative assessment tasks reveal errors like these in ways that are instructionally useful to teachers while teaching and learning is still going on.

Formative assessment—done right—is a very clear but subtle, ever-changing picture of what’s going on with our students. Grades Don’t Guide Our Learning ...

Formative assessment comprises techniques that are used to monitor student learning and to provide ongoing feedback. The aim of formative assessment is to provide information on student struggles that ...

This article reports the outcomes of a research project designed to investigate and develop formative classroom assessment in primary schools. The project was a collaborative one, involving two ...

Louis Volante, Danielle Beckett, Formative assessment and the contemporary classroom: Synergies and tensions between research and practice, Canadian Journal of Education / Revue canadienne de ...

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Parents Like Formative Assessment--and Their Kids' Teachers Parents want classroom teachers to be the primary decision-makers when it comes to what their children learn--and they want them to have the ...

In addition, teachers have used it to help shape lesson plans, although the monolithic structure of the traditional classroom ties teachers' hands from being able to offer much by way of ...

The great thing about informal assessments is they help us gauge students’ understanding during the learning process instead of after. Informal assessment also changes teachers’ relationship to ...

This light-touch review of literature on classroom assessments (CA) in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and South Asia finds that they are rarely implemented effectively. It is extremely common to find ...