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, ...

There’s a lot of confusion about what formative assessments actually are and what they do. My colleague Catherine Gewertz interviewed Meghan Pazmino, a math coach at Ross Elementary School in ...

Further, activities, assignments and separate assessments can all serve a variety of these purposes. For example, a group research project may proceed by stages in which students are given feedback ...

As more students have access to computers in K-12 classrooms each year, teachers are turning more often to those devices for the age-old practice of conducting formative assessment. A 2016 Education ...

Students often draw upon a diverse set of prior understanding and experiences when attempting to explain phenomena. Formative assessment allows teachers to better understand students’ alternative ...

Canadian Journal of Education / Revue canadienne de l'éducation, Vol. 35, No. 2 (2012), pp. 24-40 (17 pages) Abstract Formative assessment is a potentially powerful instructional process because the ...

What happens when the $1.3 billion state summative assessment market begins to merge with the growing $1.6 billion market for formative assessments? Investors and the education community are closely ...