Formative assessments provide many benefits for students and educators and should be an essential part of student learning. Gikandi, et al. (2011) define formative assessment as "an iterative process ...

Objective: To explore the effectiveness of formative evaluation in the mentoring of student nursing interns in an emergency department. Results: The professional theoretical performance, clinical ...

Classroom assessment is purposeful when the information is utilised by teachers to support learning. Such formative assessment practices can be difficult to enact in a primary science classroom, with ...

Objectives Formative peer assessment focuses on learning and development of the student learning process. This implies that students are taking responsibility for assessing the work of their peers by ...

Formative assessment is an assessment form that promotes learning, and is therefore often called "assessment for learning". This form of assessment has learning as its purpose, and this distinguishes ...

I love hyphens. Always have. Always will. If used properly, hyphens make things easier to read. This is because hyphenated words let readers know there’s something still coming in a phrase that’s ...

Formative assessment is an essential component of effective teaching and learning, the core of classroom teaching, and a key skill for teachers. But how can assessment accurately reflect learning ...

Corrected: An earlier version of this study incorrectly described the 1998 study by Paul Black and Dylan Wiliam. It is a literature review. If you ask five teachers what formative assessment is, ...