This week’s question is: What are effective formative assessment techniques? Part One in this series featured responses from Jennifer Serravallo, Andrew Miller, Daniel R. Venables, Brady E. Venables, ...

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 ...

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 ...

When designing formative assessments, instructors need to think about aligning the assessed knowledge and skills, as well the assessment format itself, with desired learning outcomes and with the ...

I love hyphens. Always have. Always will. If used properly, hyphens make things easier to read. This is because hyphenated words let readers know there’s something still coming in a phrase that’s ...

This chapter discusses the relationships between formative and summative assessments—both in the classroom and externally. In addition to teachers, site-and district-level administrators and decision ...

Edmodo, which operates the popular education social networking site of the same name, has released a new formative assessment tool called Snapshot, which is "designed to provide real-time insight into ...

To increase opportunities for students to practice specific grammar points and listening skills. Since 2006, the Italian Department has embraced e-assessment activities in their UG language degree ...

Audience response systems are often used to gauge opinions, gather feedback, for use with formative assessments or as an engagement tool. Turningpoint, the system in use here, was used by Rachel ...

Assess student progress in a low-stakes setting through Surveys and Self Assessment in UB Learns. Surveys and Self Assessments are excellent tools that enable learners to provide feedback on how well ...