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

You’ve checked for understanding—now you can use this framework to understand what students’ confusion is telling you, and how you can adjust course.

As we explore the design and application of formative assessments, it is important that we look at the culture of the classrooms in which they will be administered. Formative assessments will increase ...

In this final blog, I respond to Meiko Lin’s three queries with some closing thoughts and takeaways from “Assessing the Assessments": What emerged from this exercise and what gaps were left in the ...

How can you prepare students for workplace experiences that don’t exist yet? As an educator in this digital age, that’s one of my biggest challenges. The real test is finding ways to truly get your ...

CTB/McGraw-Hill (a unit of McGraw-Hill Education) has released Acuity UnWired, a new tool that allows the company's Acuity InFormative Assessment to integrate with interactive classroom response ...

Before outlining formative assessment’s undeniable importance, context regarding assessments as a whole is warranted. Oftentimes, schools use different types of assessment to inform instructional ...

Ed. note: Today’s students have too many tests to take—but today’s teachers still need insight into their classes’ knowledge and skills. Adding new tests every time students need to prove mastery ...

SANTA MONICA, Calif. & BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Formative, a SaaS-based real-time student data platform, today announced a $70 million minority investment led by global growth investor Summit Partners ...