These versatile strategies—from brain dumps to speed sharing—help students track their own progress while informing your next instructional steps.

Building frequent checks for understanding into lessons can help teachers spot learning gaps in real time and adjust ...

There’s a lot of confusion about what formative assessments actually are and what they do. My colleague Catherine Gewertz interviewed Meghan Pazmino, a math coach at Ross Elementary School in ...

Formative assessments are tools used during instruction to provide real-time feedback, helping both students and educators make immediate improvements. Unlike summative assessments, which evaluate ...

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 ...

When designing formative assessments, instructors need to think about aligning the assessed knowledge and skills, as well the assessment format itself, with desired learning outcomes and with the ...

In today’s new environment of online, remote learning, the need for teachers and school administrators to get immediate feedback on student progress is of paramount importance. This type of feedback, ...

In the corporate world, few rituals are as universally dreaded as the mandatory compliance training. It is often a passive, click-next-until-it’s-over exercise designed to generate a certificate ...

The accelerated digitization of today’s classroom impacts every aspect of instruction–from attendance to summative assessment and everything in between. As educators have shifted to the hybrid ...