Summative assessment success is supported by two formative assessments, a case discussion with peers and an outline of the case. Why case-based discussion? We found the use of case-based discussion to ...

Formative assessment activities, usually carried out in the classroom as part of the teaching and learning process, encompass everything from teachers’ direct observation of student performance and ...

Formative assessment, as the name suggests, influences a person’s development. Assessment is a critical component of learning, which involves studying, applying, testing, and assessing performance.

“My support of the formative-assessment process should definitely not be construed as support for standardised tests and, even more definitely, not support of using standardised tests for five ...

Now that we're using Formative, the teachers only have to look at the total number correct and transfer the grade into their grade books. This process takes about five minutes.

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 ...

Gayle A. Buck, Amy E. Trauth-Nare, Preparing Teachers to Make the Formative Assessment Process Integral to Science Teaching and Learning, Journal of Science Teacher Education, Vol. 20, No. 5 (2009), ...

Louis Volante, Danielle Beckett, Formative assessment and the contemporary classroom: Synergies and tensions between research and practice, Canadian Journal of Education / Revue canadienne de ...

By formative assessment, we mean an active and intentional learning process that partners the teacher and the students to continuously and systematically gather evidence of learning with the ...