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

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 ...

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, ...

One of the things I hear most frequently on my beat, reporting on common standards and assessments, is frustration with the lack of instructional resources available at the moment. (See one of my ...

<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 ...

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 ...

There are few challenges in K-12 education quite as problematic as formative assessment. This process, through which teachers evaluate how well their students are learning while they are teaching them ...

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 ...

There is a heated debate right now around AI and assessment. This is understandable given that AI’s language and reasoning ...