Formative assessment is kind of the air we breathe in a classroom that’s active, that’s engaged, and where students are learning effectively. Joel: You describe a great environment where it’s embedded ...

Many educators have never heard of formative assessment or aren’t easily convinced that self- and peer-assessment strategies have a place in higher education. Instructional designers have a unique ...

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, ...

This post is by Elizabeth Leisy Stosich, Research and Policy Fellow at the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE). There is widespread agreement that test-based accountability ...

Planning and aligning your assessments with your learning outcomes is central to effective assessment design and is key to good course design. In this way, you ensure that your assessment tasks match ...

Formative assessment provides significant opportunities for student development and learning, and can provide a means for more tailored, student-led learning free from the restrictions of summative ...

Formative feedback in medical education involves observing the trainee’s performance within a certain domain and comparing it against an expected standard. Formative feedback should be clear, specific ...

A key takeaway was that formative assessment is a process, and not a “one moment in time” event. How can formative assessment be used to support the curriculum? This was the subject of a recent ...