The new “question-of-the-week” is: What are effective formative assessment techniques? Please share your thoughts in the comments or, if you prefer, feel free to email them to me. You can also send ...

This week’s question is: What are effective formative assessment techniques? Part One in this series featured responses from Jennifer Serravallo, Andrew Miller, Daniel R. Venables, Brady E. Venables, ...

The following practices guide instructor strategies (Nicol and Macfarlane-Dick, 2006; Yale, 2017). Click each title to learn more about them. 1. Keep clear criteria for what defines good performance ...

When learning about formative assessment, one encounters various explanations such as "assessment conducted during class," ...

Formative assessment comprises techniques that are used to monitor student learning and to provide ongoing feedback. The aim of formative assessment is to provide information on student struggles that ...

Diana Laurillard of the UCL Knowledge Lab outlines digital instruction methods that help with formative assessment, or assessment for learning, rather than summative assessment for grading. She gives ...

David Henderson reports on the evidence so far from research into Assessment is for Learning, Scotland’s unique attempt to bring about cultural change in the classroom Simple classroom techniques such ...

“We aren’t allowed to assess apprentices on programme, because this only happens during end-point assessment.” I can’t recall any conversations in recent years in my work with delivery teams where ...