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, ...

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 ...

Formative assessment is squishy. And squishy things don’t easily yield to standardized measurement. And that creates an awkward situation in an era of numbers-driven accountability. That squishiness ...

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 ...

When designing formative assessments, instructors need to think about aligning the assessed knowledge and skills, as well the assessment format itself, with desired learning outcomes and with the ...

To help students explore the most significant questions of their young lives, and to scaffold them on their college and vocational journey, Lynch School Professor of Counseling Psychology Belle Liang ...

There is a need for interventions to promote breast cancer screening among high-risk population. This formative research is part of a pragmatic randomized trial being conducted in Santa Fe, Argentina, ...

The Asia Foundation, in collaboration with New ERA and Shakti Samuha, announced the launch of 'Formative Research on Child Trafficking in Nepal' at an event in Kathmandu on March 18. This research ...

This report details the development of a learning progression for the understanding of fractions. The intended use of the learning progression is to support formative assessment practices for children ...