Varying the format of comprehension checks guides students to demonstrate learning and provides teachers feedback on progress ...

Teachers can use these techniques to gauge students’ understanding mid-lesson and then decide whether to reteach or press ...

There’s a lot of confusion about what formative assessments actually are and what they do. My colleague Catherine Gewertz interviewed Meghan Pazmino, a math coach at Ross Elementary School in ...

In today’s new environment of online, remote learning, the need for teachers and school administrators to get immediate feedback on student progress is of paramount importance. This type of feedback, ...

As more students have access to computers in K-12 classrooms each year, teachers are turning more often to those devices for the age-old practice of conducting formative assessment. A 2016 Education ...

When designing formative assessments, instructors need to think about aligning the assessed knowledge and skills, as well the assessment format itself, with desired learning outcomes and with the ...

Further, activities, assignments and separate assessments can all serve a variety of these purposes. For example, a group research project may proceed by stages in which students are given feedback ...

The accelerated digitization of today’s classroom impacts every aspect of instruction–from attendance to summative assessment and everything in between. As educators have shifted to the hybrid ...

The learning event organised by the Education International Asia-Pacific (EIAP) office on teacher-led learning circles for ...

What is a Lesson Plan? An effective lesson plan demonstrates how a teacher creates objectives for his or her students and measures how those objectives are mastered. Creating a lesson plan begins with ...

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 ...