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 & ...

Formative assessment is versatile--teachers can turn almost any sort of assignment into a type of digital formative 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 ...

BETA Formative Assessment: Understanding what to teach next on an individual student-by-student basis represents the “Holy Grail” of personalized learning. At BLC 2012, Rhode Island-based startup, ...

Four formative and summative learning assessment tools were used in two terms of an agricultural technology course. The formative assessment tools were a weekly e-mail feedback journal and a midterm ...

Formative Assessment: The Current Education Structure Formative assessment is meant for learning assessment, i.e., it is used to measure how much a student has learned up to a particular period.

What happens when the $1.3 billion state summative assessment market begins to merge with the growing $1.6 billion market for formative assessments? Investors and the education community are closely ...