A key takeaway was that formative assessment is a process, and not a “one moment in time” event. How can formative assessment be used to support the curriculum? This was the subject of a recent ...

There are few challenges in K-12 education quite as problematic as formative assessment. This process, through which teachers evaluate how well their students are learning while they are teaching them ...

This week’s question is: What are effective formative assessment techniques? As I said in a previous popular Classroom Q & A post, Ways To Include Students In The Formative Assessment Process, ...

Corrected: An earlier version of this study incorrectly described the 1998 study by Paul Black and Dylan Wiliam. It is a literature review. If you ask five teachers what formative assessment is, ...

Many educators have never heard of formative assessment or aren’t easily convinced that self- and peer-assessment strategies have a place in higher education. Instructional designers have a unique ...

Evidence is gathered about student achievement or understanding. The information allows the instructor or learner to alter future instructional steps. It is done to improve learning outcomes (Black & ...

I can see the formative assessment result, the instructional strategies and resources. When we’re able to use the data to tweak that curriculum, then we’re making the curriculum useful and visible, ...

Educators who use student-oriented approaches adapt to different students’ needs, abilities, interests and learning styles. There is now evidence to suggest that educators who supplement or replace ...