Formative assessment is one of the most powerful tools teachers can use to guide learning. Unlike summative assessment, which ...

Did you know that a 5th grade teacher is expected to guide students to mastery of 200 standards each year? Given a typical school year of 180 days, that’s 1.1 standards a day! Of course, standards don ...

In this final blog, I respond to Meiko Lin’s three queries with some closing thoughts and takeaways from “Assessing the Assessments": What emerged from this exercise and what gaps were left in the ...

This week’s question is: What are effective formative assessment techniques? Part One in this series featured responses from Jennifer Serravallo, Andrew Miller, Daniel R. Venables, Brady E. Venables, ...

With federal and state officials, accreditors and others all talking about the importance of assessment, what's going on in classrooms? Assessment, after all, takes place every time a professor gives ...

College instructors often provide students with only summative evaluations of their work, typically in the form of exam scores or paper grades. Formative evaluation, such as classroom assessment ...

To start, a question: What’s the difference between formative assessment and summative assessment? It’s not enough to say merely that formative assessment is a measure of student achievement ...

A new generation of assessment tools are hoping to piggyback off the wealth of online rating software to find a better and more efficient method of assessing students. The world is caught up in an ...

Research in the Teaching of English, Vol. 36, No. 4 (May, 2002), pp. 462-494 (33 pages) This case study investigates the possible link between a classroom teacher's implementation of alternative ...