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, ...

Formative assessment comprises techniques that are used to monitor student learning and to provide ongoing feedback. The aim of formative assessment is to provide information on student struggles that ...

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 ...

The Educational Testing Service last week acquired the assets of a Portland, Ore.-based company that specializes in helping teachers use classroom assessments to improve daily instruction. By ...

Frequent low-stakes formative assessments and robust feedback loops allow students to learn from prior mistakes. Even high-stakes assessments can be designed for learning and growth by adding ...

The rigors of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) ask today’s educators not simply to measure students’ factual knowledge, but instead to accurately assess students’ critical thinking. With such a ...

“In the aftermath of PARCC and Smarter Balanced’s recent pilots, ‘testing’ is the acrid word on most ISTE educators’ tongues when it comes to negativity around Common Core,” wrote Mary Jo Madda in her ...

Assessments in education measure student achievement. These may take the form traditional assessments such as exams, or quizzes, but may also be part of learning activities such as group projects or ...

Clashes over testing in K–12 schools have grown in intensity in recent years. In some quarters, parents decry the over-testing of their children, for example, whereas others point out the need for ...