9.12.12 Formative Assessment vs. Summative Assessment Results: Timing Matters We won’t spend much time defining what formative assessment is or what summative assessment is, since we’ve done that in a previous blog. In short, formative assessment are ongoing frequent... Read more
9.5.12 Classroom techniques: Formative assessment idea number 2 Welcome back to our series on formative assessment strategies you can incorporate into your practice. So far, we've talked about the Popsicle Stick, a simple technique that engages the... Read more
8.28.12 Classroom techniques: Formative assessment technique number 1 Do you need to know if your students are "getting it"? Simply asking students to raise their hands is not necessarily a good strategy to encourage. Formative assessment can be a more... Read more
8.16.12 Dylan Wiliam & The 5 Formative Assessment Strategies to Improve Student Learning Dylan Wiliam’s new book, Embedded Formative Assessment, is filled with a number of insights culled from his 35 years of experience in education. The foundation of the book highlights the... Read more
6.27.12 Formative Assessment Infographic – What Parents and Educators Want “If you can both listen to children and accept their answers not as things to just be judged right or wrong but as pieces of information which may reveal what the child is thinking, you will have... Read more
6.20.12 Dylan Wiliam and Putting Formative Assessment to Work "Every teacher needs to be getting better…better at something that will make a difference to their students…" Those are the words of Dylan Wiliam, creator of the Keeping Learning on Track®... Read more
6.15.12 The Importance of Setting Classroom and Student Expectations At some point, we’ve all been there; in a class or course, where after several sessions it’s still unclear what is expected and how you’ll be graded. Well, both quantitative and qualitative... Read more
5.31.12 Do you believe that all teachers can get even better at teaching that drives student learning? As Dylan Wiliam explains in this video, as a starting point, teachers first need to believe that they can get better by changing some of their teaching practices. Once they believe this, from there... Read more
5.16.12 Self-Regulation of Learning Leads to Student Performance Improvement For students to become actively engaged with the learning process they need guidelines and opportunities to learn and engage in self-assessment. A program like Keeping Learning on Track can provide... Read more
4.24.12 Formative Assessment Strategies – Teacher Learning Communities for Educational Collaboration There are many definitions of formative assessment floating around that can all be classified as correct, and our own international formative assessment expert, Dylan Wiliam, offers his... Read more
