Experts outline challenges to helping teachers embody formative-assessment practices.

Elementary school teachers in the Peach State are using "game-based" formative assessments to take a pulse on their students' learning.

Page Keeley, Formative Assessment Probes: Using Formative Assessment Probes to Develop Elementary Learning Stations, Science and Children, Vol. 55, No. 9, Learning Centers (July 2018), pp. 28-31 ...

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 began long before blended learning. But formative assessment is particularly in the spotlight now because it features so prominently in emerging blended learning programs. In fact ...

In addition to developing formative AES systems, Wilson also studies the effect of current systems in the teaching and learning of elementary and middle school students, using the PEG Writing ...

This network needs a formative assessment tool that allows them to build their own formative assessments based on Common Core standards and efficiently auto-grade or create grading efficiencies for ...

Further, activities, assignments and separate assessments can all serve a variety of these purposes. For example, a group research project may proceed by stages in which students are given feedback ...

We then present an elaboration of how formative assessment can be used to support learning a common intellectual skill involving a discrimination task and to develop an appropriate cognitive strategy ...

Formative assessment allows teachers to better understand students’ alternative conceptions and plan for instruction that moves students toward more expert-like conceptions. Of course, lessons and ...