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 ...

Formative assessments are tools used during instruction to provide real-time feedback, helping both students and educators make immediate improvements. Unlike summative assessments, which evaluate ...

Includes updates and/or revisions. As educators across the country focus attention on designing new and better ways to gauge what students are learning, they risk distorting the meaning and practice ...

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

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, ...

Formative assessment is meant for learning assessment, i.e., it is used to measure how much a student has learned up to a particular period. Teachers use formative assessments to evaluate a student’s ...

There are countless ways to assess students. Speaking broadly, two key assessment categories are “summative” and “formative”. Summative assessment, often the most popular one, aims to measure how much ...

The Formative Leadership Education Project was recently awarded a grant from the Kern Family Foundation entitled “Expanding the Reach of Formative Leadership Education by Building Communities of ...

This project sets out to do two things: 1) to offer spiritual grounding for what is spoken about as "formative education" and 2) to show what "formative education" looks like in a specific discipline, ...