Changing how you give and use formative assessments can help you make better instructional decisions for all students.

Assessments for the Common Core require more than just multiple choice. Learn how to create assessments that measure concepts, not facts.

Formative assessment is more effective than grades in gauging individual student learning—but only on a small scale, says Marsha Ratzel.

Parents Like Formative Assessment--and Their Kids' Teachers Parents want classroom teachers to be the primary decision-makers when it comes to what their children learn--and they want them to have the ...

This network needs a formative assessment tool that allows them to build their own formative assessments based on Common Core standards and efficiently auto-grade or create grading efficiencies for ...

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 & ...

Formative assessment is meant for learning assessment, i.e., it is used to measure how much a student has learned up to a particular period. Teachers use formative assessments to evaluate a ...