As education policy moves away from the much-maligned No Child Left Behind and toward new legislation focusing on learning outcomes, technology-enabled formative assessments are moving to the ...
Four dozen teachers gathered recently to watch a colleague teach a lesson about Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 and then analyzed her performance. But they didn’t crowd into the Massachusetts ...
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 ...
CFY, an education nonprofit, has updated its free learning platform, PowerMyLearning, with new tools for formative assessments. PowerMyLearning allows educators to create and assign playlists of ...
What do PARCC and Smarter Balanced offer in addition to their year-end tests? If you gave teachers across the country a pop quiz on that question, you’d probably get a lot of bewildered looks. Many ...
When learning about formative assessment, one encounters various explanations such as "assessment conducted during class," ...
“I use formative assessment periodically in my classroom in varying degrees. Typically, I formally assess my students every few weeks and then three times throughout the year on a progression of the ...
As game-based learning gains momentum in education circles, teachers increasingly want substantive proof that games are helpful for learning. The game-makers at the non-profit GlassLab are hoping to ...
From Small but Mighty: How Everyday Habits Add Up to More Manageable and Confident Teaching (pp. 78-80), by M. Plotinsky, 2024, ASCD. Copyright 2024 by ASCD ...
Formative assessment provides significant opportunities for student development and learning, and can provide a means for more tailored, student-led learning free from the restrictions of summative ...