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

Building frequent checks for understanding into lessons can help teachers spot learning gaps in real time and adjust ...

Formative assessment is squishy. And squishy things don’t easily yield to standardized measurement. And that creates an awkward situation in an era of numbers-driven accountability. That squishiness ...

Communications Learning Assessment (CLA) supports formative assessment in medical education by providing a structured ...

Every educator knows what “a teachable moment” is. It’s the brief period of time when events serendipitously conspire to teach students something that otherwise might be difficult for them to learn.

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 ...

In today’s new environment of online, remote learning, the need for teachers and school administrators to get immediate feedback on student progress is of paramount importance. This type of feedback, ...

With increasing numbers of multilingual learners, representing over 20 languages and 65% of the student population, the ...

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 ...

Why formative assessment is so important Before outlining formative assessment’s undeniable importance, context regarding assessments as a whole is warranted. Oftentimes, schools use different types ...