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 ...

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Evidence is gathered about student achievement or understanding. The information allows the instructor or learner to alter future instructional steps. It is done to improve learning outcomes (Black & ...

Teachers, remember your days of taking exams? Have you ever crammed for a test and aced it only to realize that you didn’t really learn anything? Have you ever gotten the correct answer by eliminating ...

“All they do is force us to test, test, test – why don’t they just let us teach?”This has become a typical battle cry among teachers across the country since No Child Left Behind was passed as federal ...

Second grader Brooks Rudnik hunches over a screen, guiding a purple, sunglass-wearing character through an imaginary world called “Keenville.” His mission: help save the planet’s animals, in part by ...

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 ...

Today’s guest contributor is Deanna Iceman Sands, Professor and Dean, College of Education, Seattle University. In previous blog contributions, the concept of formative assessment (FA) was raised on ...

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