Corrected: An earlier version of this study incorrectly described the 1998 study by Paul Black and Dylan Wiliam. It is a literature review. If you ask five teachers what formative assessment is, ...

Today’s guest contributor is Kelley M. Kalinich, Superintendent, Kenilworth School District No. 38, Illinois. In many ways, the world we all live in has become one big formative assessment. Consider a ...

Formative assessments are tools used during instruction to provide real-time feedback, helping both students and educators make immediate improvements. Unlike summative assessments, which evaluate ...

The accelerated digitization of today’s classroom impacts every aspect of instruction–from attendance to summative assessment and everything in between. As educators have shifted to the hybrid ...

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 ...

Cover 1; Contents; Dedication; Preface; Acknowledgments; About the Author; Introduction; Section 1 -- Life Science; 1 -- Is It Living?; 2 -- Is It an Animal?; 3 -- Is It a Plant?; 4 -- Is It Made of ...

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 ...