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 ...

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 ...

Teachers usually can’t use standardized tests to accelerate students’ learning. The tests are often too general and the results too slow in coming to help teachers make daily instructional decisions.

Everything about school provides some sort of formative feedback to students. By formative, we mean “shaping or molding.” Indeed, everything about a learning environment shapes and molds the overall ...

Assessment support helps students to understand expectations and improve performance through feedback, enhancing learning and confidence (Tai et al., 2018). Embedding feedback also ...

I admit: it is not fun to sit for many hours to take a summative standardised test. Whether we like it or not – standardised testing always had a clear purpose. It can be to account for education ...

The Directorate of Education invited expressions of interest from agencies with technical expertise to design teaching and learning material mapped to the school curriculum, along with assessment ...

Self-assessments encourage students to reflect on their skills, knowledge, learning goals, and progress in a course. These practices can range from quick, low-stakes check-ins on lecture content to in ...

It’s no secret that the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a ripple effect of learning loss. Many states are making efforts to address the problem, with Louisiana trying to recruit more teachers, Ector ...