Ed. note: Today’s students have too many tests to take—but today’s teachers still need insight into their classes’ knowledge and skills. Adding new tests every time students need to prove mastery ...

You’ve checked for understanding—now you can use this framework to understand what students’ confusion is telling you, and how you can adjust course.

Students retain information better when they have consistent opportunities to engage with previously taught content.

Sometimes when teachers see good formative-assessment lessons in action, they believe they represent unrealistic aspirations for their own classrooms. In these lessons, students may be developing ...

There’s always a lot of interest among Education Week readers in the topic of “formative assessment.” And despite some confusion over the research, there is at least general recognition that this ...

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 ...

Students often draw upon a diverse set of prior understanding and experiences when attempting to explain phenomena. Formative assessment allows teachers to better understand students’ alternative ...

This K-8 network recently opened its first school this year with 300 kids in K-3 and 6th grade. They will expand to 600 students in K-4 and 6&8 grade in the fall. By its third year it will become a ...

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. Teachers use formative assessments to evaluate a student’s ...

“Formative assessment is an essential part of teaching because it helps guide instruction. Checking for understanding of important concepts helps the teacher decide to move on or to continue ...