These versatile strategies—from brain dumps to speed sharing—help students track their own progress while informing your next instructional steps.

Incorporating peer review and individual reflections makes frequent, intentional formative assessment manageable, with big benefits for student learning.

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, ...

The accelerated digitization of today’s classroom impacts every aspect of instruction–from attendance to summative assessment and everything in between. As educators have shifted to the hybrid ...

NBME announced the availability of its Communication Learning Assessment (CLA), which is designed to help medical students practice and develop patient-centered communication skills early in their ...

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 ...

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, ...

In today’s new environment of online, remote learning, the need for teachers and school administrators to get immediate feedback on student progress is of paramount importance. This type of feedback, ...

Formative assessments are crafted or planned to meet students at their current achievement level, pinpointing the specific areas of need with subject-specific skills, concepts, and learning objectives ...

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 ...