Varying the format of comprehension checks guides students to demonstrate learning and provides teachers feedback on progress ...
Teachers can use these techniques to gauge students’ understanding mid-lesson and then decide whether to reteach or press ...
Formative assessment began long before blended learning. Teachers have used formative assessment for decades as a method to get feedback about how students are progressing in their learning (see ...
Everything about school provides some sort of formative feedback to students. By formative, we mean “shaping or molding.” Indeed, everything about a learning environment shapes and molds the overall ...
Like many other concerned teachers, I’ve been reading the Obama administration’s blueprint for how educational reforms should unfold. Most of the ideas revolve around using a national curriculum that ...
Tests are king in many school systems and other educational environments: they are seen as an efficient way to assess what knowledge students have retained, and how well they do on a level playing ...
Professors discuss the shift towards formative assessments in engineering education for improved learning outcomes and continuous evaluation methods.
The learning event organised by the Education International Asia-Pacific (EIAP) office on teacher-led learning circles for ...
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 ...