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Formative Assessment: Evidence, Feedback, and Instructional Decisions

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Summary

Formative assessment is an ongoing part of teaching and learning. It helps teachers and students use evidence of learning to decide what to do next, rather than waiting until the end of a unit to find out what has been learned.

Formative assessment is a range of formal and informal procedures used during learning to gather, interpret, and act on evidence of student understanding. It can help students identify strengths, weaknesses, and areas to work on. It also helps teachers recognize difficulties and adjust instruction promptly.

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Formative assessment
Gathering, interpreting, and using evidence of learning to inform next steps in teaching or learning.
Summative assessment
Assessment that evaluates learning outcomes, often at the end of a learning period.
Wait time
The pause after a question that gives students time to formulate a response.
Common formative assessment
An assessment shared by teachers of a common course, grade, or topic.
Backward design
Planning that starts with desired outcomes and assessment before instruction.

Quiz questions

  1. What makes evidence from an assessment formative?Answer: It is interpreted and used to guide next steps in teaching or learning.
  2. Which role is emphasized for students in the Assessment Reform Group's principles for assessment for learning?Answer: Assessing their own learning and understanding how to improve.
  3. What should effective feedback focus on?Answer: The work, learning, or strategy, with a useful next step.
  4. How can a teacher team use results from a common formative assessment?Answer: Compare learning evidence and plan support or extension.
  5. Why does using an online quiz not automatically make it formative?Answer: The results must be interpreted and used to guide a response.

Based on the Wikipedia article Formative assessment, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Adapted into a summary, flashcards and quizzes.

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