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), ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

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.

A mastery-based, formative assessment process can provide real-time data that is easily acted upon by teachers and students alike. Once the focus has shifted from the use of high stakes, end-of-level ...

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 ...