These versatile strategies—from brain dumps to speed sharing—help students track their own progress while informing your next instructional steps.

There’s a war of sorts going on within the normally staid assessment industry, and it’s a war over the definition of a type of assessment that many educators understand in only the sketchiest fashion.

1.1 Feedback should always be focused on helping students to develop their skills, knowledge and understanding, both subject-specific and transferable, and to identify areas for improvement.

The accelerated digitization of today’s classroom impacts every aspect of instruction–from attendance to summative assessment and everything in between. As educators have shifted to the hybrid ...

Diana Laurillard of the UCL Knowledge Lab outlines digital instruction methods that help with formative assessment, or assessment for learning, rather than summative assessment for grading. She gives ...

<i>Formative assessment</i> is now at risk of being understood merely as testing that is done often. Sometimes the vocabulary we use as educators starts out with one meaning, but morphs over time into ...

“All they do is force us to test, test, test – why don’t they just let us teach?”This has become a typical battle cry among teachers across the country since No Child Left Behind was passed as federal ...

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 ...

With increasing numbers of multilingual learners, representing over 20 languages and 65% of the student population, the ...