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

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Assess student progress in a low-stakes setting through Surveys and Self Assessment in UB Learns. Surveys and Self Assessments are excellent tools that enable learners to provide feedback on how well ...

I love hyphens. Always have. Always will. If used properly, hyphens make things easier to read. This is because hyphenated words let readers know there’s something still coming in a phrase that’s ...

Summative assessment refers to the assessment or evaluation of students’ learning, skill acquisition, and academic achievement at the conclusion of a specific instructional period. It is generally ...

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 ...