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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Formative assessment, as I understand it, is an on-going process where both teachers and students evaluate assessment evidence in order to make adjustments to their teaching and learning.

Formative assessment began long before blended learning. But formative assessment is particularly in the spotlight now because it features so prominently in emerging blended learning programs. In fact ...

Formative assessment can work wonders when teachers realize it's a process of using results to adjust how they work with their students.