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

Our story about formative assessment seems to have struck a bit of a nerve. Readers are raising interesting questions about it. So let’s go one more round on this today. Margaret Heritage, the author ...

The new “question-of-the-week” is: What are effective formative assessment techniques? Please share your thoughts in the comments or, if you prefer, feel free to email them to me. You can also send ...

Why formative assessment is so important Before outlining formative assessment’s undeniable importance, context regarding assessments as a whole is warranted. Oftentimes, schools use different types ...

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 ...

California Collaborative for Educational Excellence director offers suggestions for how districts can prioritize and address students' emotional and learning needs. Webinars will delve into formative ...

There are countless ways to assess students. Speaking broadly, two key assessment categories are “summative” and “formative”. Summative assessment, often the most popular one, aims to measure how much ...

Can term-end summative examination as a form of assessment be done away with totally? Not just yet, given the 60 % weightage that it enjoys in the current structure of assessment. However, the ...