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, ...

In today’s new environment of online, remote learning, the need for teachers and school administrators to get immediate feedback on student progress is of paramount importance. This type of feedback, ...

Last month, we covered "Integrated Understanding and Comprehensive Demonstration" from the "Summary of Deliberations" for the ...

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 assessment began long before blended learning. Teachers have used formative assessment for decades as a method to get feedback about how students are progressing in their learning (see ...

From Small but Mighty: How Everyday Habits Add Up to More Manageable and Confident Teaching (pp. 78-80), by M. Plotinsky, 2024, ASCD. Copyright 2024 by ASCD ...

I love hyphens. Always have. Always will. If used properly, hyphens make things easier to read. This is because hyphenated words let readers know there’s something still coming in a phrase that’s ...

It’s been 27 years since Shirley Clarke began her work on formative assessment, and she’s as passionate about its place in schools as ever. But she’s frustrated, too. Since being popularised by Paul ...

G. K. Suraishkumar looks at ways to assess students’ learning more effectively through formative assessments and argues for basing grades entirely on this method There are countless ways to assess ...

Tests are king in many school systems and other educational environments: they are seen as an efficient way to assess what knowledge students have retained, and how well they do on a level playing ...