Incorporating peer review and individual reflections makes frequent, intentional formative assessment manageable, with big ...

One of the two big groups of states that are designing tests for the Common Core State Standards has pared back its plans to produce diagnostic and formative assessment tools because it had to use ...

Formative assessment comprises techniques that are used to monitor student learning and to provide ongoing feedback. The aim of formative assessment is to provide information on student struggles that ...

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

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 ...

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With a years-long shift to skills-based instruction and grading, this district found an unexpected outcome—an increase in AP ...

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 ...