Formative Assessment Is Foundational to Blended Learning. In the eighth installment of their monthly column, blended learning experts Michael B. Horn and Heather Staker cite innovative examples of ...

Examples of formative assessment, according to the report, include providing feedback on writing, teaching students to assess their own writing, and monitoring students’ progress in writing.

This type of feedback, called formative assessment, is often easier said than done. Schools are finding challenges in all areas, including even getting students to a computer with Internet access.

The aim of formative assessment is to provide information on student struggles that can be acted on immediately. Different types of formative assessment include: Asking students to draw a concept map ...

Formative assessment is a hyperlocal process that happens in classrooms, and often, just between a teacher and an individual student. But education leaders in Arizona are making the instructional ...

She gives examples of three approaches: peer review, blended assessment and automated assessment. This bite-sized recording was filmed as part of FutureLearn’s free Blended and Online Learning Design ...

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 ...

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 ...

As personalized learning becomes a more mainstream pedagogy in K–12 classrooms, teachers have started to adapt assessment processes to get a deeper look at student growth.. When it comes to assessing ...