Everything about school provides some sort of formative feedback to students. By formative, we mean “shaping or molding.” Indeed, everything about a learning environment shapes and molds the overall ...

Weekly snapshots of how students see their own progress can help teachers adjust teaching methods in real time. An online tool piloted at Georgia Tech has helped fill a feedback loop lost during the ...

IB生活は課題の連続。エッセイ、IA、TOK、日々のリフレクション…。 でも正直に言います。 Formative Assignmentsはサボってます。 だって、成績に直結しない「練習課題」に全力を出すほどの余裕はない。 じゃあどうやって回しているのか？ そこで登場するのが ...

The British Journal of Social Work, Vol. 41, No. 2 (MARCH 2011), pp. 276-295 (20 pages) The assessment and feedback practices in social work qualifying courses have to include academic rigour and ...

European Journal of Psychology of Education, Vol. 33, No. 1, Special Issue: Promoting learning by leveraging the collaborative nature of formative per assessment with instructional scaffolds (January ...

Like many other concerned teachers, I’ve been reading the Obama administration’s blueprint for how educational reforms should unfold. Most of the ideas revolve around using a national curriculum that ...

There are countless ways to assess students. Speaking broadly, two key assessment categories are “summative” and “formative”. Summative assessment, often the most popular one, aims to measure how much ...

The board is seeking feedback on four subjects – English, Mathematics, Social Sciences and Science -- and wants to know what difficulties teachers are facing. The board is seeking feedback on four ...