With a years-long shift to skills-based instruction and grading, this district found an unexpected outcome—an increase in AP ...

Rachel C. Syrja, a teacher on special assignment for the office of instruction in the El Monte City, Calif., school district, has designed districtwide staff development in assessment for learning, ...

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 ...

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, ...

In addition to grading, both oral and written forms will also be used to assess students, according to the Ministry of Education and Training's (MOET) newly released Circular 22. Ngo Huy Tam, head of ...

The most helpful methods of formative assessment are those that are easy to implement but still provide the information a teacher needs about whether their students have met their learning targets.

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 ...

This article is part of the collection: From Pre-Fab to Personalized: How Districts Are Retooling Professional Development. While school districts and companies alike may use different names -- ...

Evidence is gathered about student achievement or understanding. The information allows the instructor or learner to alter future instructional steps. It is done to improve learning outcomes (Black & ...