Formative assessment

March 2018

Power moves: Top 6 ways to use rapid formative assessment to promote student engagement

By |2019-01-24T20:13:37+00:00March 13th, 2018|

Even if you know all about student engagement, these six tips might be new to you. Student engagement is a hot topic these days because of its proven impact on graduation rates, school culture, and even academic achievement (although the data on this last one is not as strong one might think). Engagement is good. [...]

August 2016

Formative Assessment Tools that Truly Inform Instruction

By |2016-08-26T15:51:39+00:00August 26th, 2016|

Is Assessment for Learning any different from testing? Yes indeed! According to the National Council of Teachers of English, "Well over a decade into federal education policy that endows significant consequences to single tests of student achievement too late in the academic year to lead to any action, teachers might be pleased that the term “formative [...]