Using frequent ungraded classroom assessments can help teachers guide students to focus more on learning and less on test ...

Formative assessment began long before blended learning. But formative assessment is particularly in the spotlight now because it features so prominently in emerging blended learning programs. In fact ...

While everything about a learning environment may provide formative feedback to students, not everything qualifies as formative assessment. Here is what we do know about what formative assessment ...

Formative assessment is more effective than grades in gauging individual student learning—but only on a small scale, says Marsha Ratzel.

While these practices have been linked to positive learning outcomes for students, designing and enacting formative assessment tasks in science classrooms presents instructional challenges for ...

The Parkway School School District integrated DreamBox Learning into their math curriculum to help differentiate instruction and honor students’ individual abilities. Dr. Hudson will speak on the ...

In contrast, formative assessment aims to measure how a student is learning during the course. Typically, formative assessments are seen predominantly as a means of providing feedback using methods ...

Anne Deiglmayr, Instructional scaffolds for learning from formative peer assessment: effects of core task, peer feedback, and dialogue, European Journal of Psychology of Education, Vol. 33, No. 1, ...