There’s always a lot of interest among Education Week readers in the topic of “formative assessment.” And despite some confusion over the research, there is at least general recognition that this ...

There’s a war of sorts going on within the normally staid assessment industry, and it’s a war over the definition of a type of assessment that many educators understand in only the sketchiest fashion.

Feedback from teachers to their students boosts their motivation to improve on their learning strategies. In addition, when ...

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 ...

Description: In 1994 I developed CMNS 363 Approaches to Media and Audience Research, a communications course designed to introduce students to the growing role of both qualitative and quantitative ...

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 ...