Ask five teachers what formative assessment is and you’re likely to get five different explanations. Confusion abounds around this teaching technique even though it’s widely used in classrooms ...

This week’s question is: What are effective formative assessment techniques? As I said in a previous popular Classroom Q & A post, Ways To Include Students In The Formative Assessment Process, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Two instructional designers were provided with formative evaluation data from the sources recommended in the literature and were asked to ...

Educational Technology & Society, Vol. 9, No. 3, Next Generation e-Learning Systems: Intelligent Applications and Smart Design (July 2006), pp. 69-87 (19 pages) ABSTRACT Learning performance ...

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 ...

The preliminary meeting is the first physical/personal contact between the reviewer and the instructor and both parties must be prepared if this meeting is to be successful. The first topics of the ...

Over the past three years, Joshua Wilson, assistant professor in the University of Delaware’s School of Education (SOE), has studied how computer software could be used to evaluate and improve student ...

Supported by the National Science Foundation, with additional funding provided by the Association of Science-Technology Centers and American Museum of Natural History. Contents What is Formative ...

This report details the development of a learning progression for the understanding of fractions. The intended use of the learning progression is to support formative assessment practices for children ...