Formative assessment began long before blended learning. Teachers have used formative assessment for decades as a method to get feedback about how students are progressing in their learning (see ...

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.

Everything about school provides some sort of formative feedback to students. By formative, we mean “shaping or molding.” Indeed, everything about a learning environment shapes and molds the overall ...

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 ...

Like many other concerned teachers, I’ve been reading the Obama administration’s blueprint for how educational reforms should unfold. Most of the ideas revolve around using a national curriculum that ...

Eli has been eagerly pursuing a journalistic career since he left the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill School of Journalism. Previously, Eli was a staff reporter for medical trade publication ...

Diana Laurillard of the UCL Knowledge Lab outlines digital instruction methods that help with formative assessment, or assessment for learning, rather than summative assessment for grading. She gives ...

I admit: it is not fun to sit for many hours to take a summative standardised test. Whether we like it or not – standardised testing always had a clear purpose. It can be to account for education ...