Formative assessment is squishy. And squishy things don’t easily yield to standardized measurement. And that creates an awkward situation in an era of numbers-driven accountability. That squishiness ...

The need to learn from the practices of highly effective teachers to help more students excel is one of the great challenges elementary educators face. Research has shown the effectiveness of ...

Why teachers should implement formal assessment In addition to being structured to identify students’ instructional needs, formative assessment provides real, authentic teacher-student interactions.

This week’s question is: What are effective formative assessment techniques? As I said in a previous popular Classroom Q & A post, Ways To Include Students In The Formative Assessment Process, ...

eInstruction has rolled out its new Insight 360, a formative instruction system with expanded capabilities for mobile users including iPad compatibility. The new system uses software, instructional ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Two instructional designers were provided with formative evaluation data from the sources recommended in the literature and were asked to ...

European Journal of Psychology of Education, Vol. 33, No. 1, Special Issue: Promoting learning by leveraging the collaborative nature of formative per assessment with instructional scaffolds (January ...

We live in a world that has been recently reshaped in many ways. Among the areas most impacted by the pandemic is the state of K-12 education. After years of disrupted learning, setbacks in students’ ...

Battelle for Kids videographers filmed Sutter Park Preschool students in action recently, highlighting the use of formative instructional practices for preschool students by teachers in Worthington ...