Formative assessment is a spontaneous, on-the-fly process, as long as you’ve done your preparation ahead of time—you know the content that you’re going to cover, and you have an understanding of the ...

Many educators have never heard of formative assessment or aren’t easily convinced that self- and peer-assessment strategies have a place in higher education. Instructional designers have a unique ...

Even as the common core steps up pressure on teachers to help students master new skills, there’s no need for them to worry about how they’ll gauge whether their students are learning well as they go ...

Corrected: An earlier version of this study incorrectly described the 1998 study by Paul Black and Dylan Wiliam. It is a literature review. If you ask five teachers what formative assessment is, ...

To start, a question: What’s the difference between formative assessment and summative assessment? It’s not enough to say merely that formative assessment is a measure of student achievement ...

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 ...

Let’s face it: There is plenty of anxiety to go around on a college campus these days. The unusual situations that we are experiencing have ratcheted up the normal pressures of university life, ...

Formative feedback in medical education involves observing the trainee’s performance within a certain domain and comparing it against an expected standard. Formative feedback should be clear, specific ...