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

Evidence is gathered about student achievement or understanding. The information allows the instructor or learner to alter future instructional steps. It is done to improve learning outcomes (Black & ...

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

Formative assessments are critical in helping teachers uncover strengths and next steps for each student to power individual, small group, and whole class instruction.

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 ...

Here, we present information about three key modes of assessment: diagnostic, formative and summative. Diagnostic assessment Diagnostic evaluations are typically short tests given at the beginning and ...

This pedagogical Catch-22 might explain the relatively slow evolution of tech tools in this category. Even as online learning environments and instructional systems add increasingly sophisticated ...

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 ...

Four formative and summative learning assessment tools were used in two terms of an agricultural technology course. The formative assessment tools were a weekly e-mail feedback journal and a midterm ...

This article is concerned with the relationship between assessment information and teacher planning. In the UK, although planning used to be central to characterisations of formative assessment, the ...