When studying educational assessment, one encounters the distinction between "formative assessment" and "summative assessment ...

There are few challenges in K-12 education quite as problematic as formative assessment. This process, through which teachers evaluate how well their students are learning while they are teaching them ...

To start, a question: What’s the difference between formative assessment and summative assessment? It’s not enough to say merely that formative assessment is a measure of student achievement ...

This week’s question is: What are effective formative assessment techniques? As I said in a previous popular Classroom Q & A post, Ways To Include Students In The Formative Assessment Process, ...

I’m often surprised when teachers are surprised when their students perform poorly on tests. Sure there are kids whose scores belie their skills, such as those who have test anxiety or had a bad day ...

What happens when the $1.3 billion state summative assessment market begins to merge with the growing $1.6 billion market for formative assessments? Investors and the education community are closely ...

Tests are king in many school systems and other educational environments: they are seen as an efficient way to assess what knowledge students have retained, and how well they do on a level playing ...

The following practices guide instructor strategies for developing and implementing summative assignments (Nicol and Macfarlane-Dick, 2006; Yale, 2017). There are a number of ways to assess students’ ...

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 ...