9.24.15 Use Formative Assessment as Your Classroom Fitbit Do you have a Fitbit or some other fitness tracker? Why did you get one? What do you use it for? What kind of results are you seeing? Do you share your results? Have you connected with others using... Read more
9.17.15 Research proof points: Better student engagement improves student learning Research shows that using formative assessment can improve student learning. One of the ways formative assessment does this is by improving student engagement, a challenge for any... Read more
8.4.15 Formative Assessment in Arts Education There are places in every content area where formative assessment occurs naturally and most often implicitly. Sports and the arts are two examples where we move from practice to final performance and... Read more
7.7.15 Five Easy to Implement “All Student Response” Strategies Research has shown that increasing student engagement improves student learning. In fact, in 1990, Skinner, Wellborn, and Connell (What it takes to do well in school and whether I’ve got it: A... Read more
10.23.14 8 Formative Assessment Data Sources that Help Students Become Better Learners Not too long ago Daniel Venables shared a blog at TeachThought titled 8 Frequent Sources Of Formative Assessment Data which talks about data as tools teachers can use to teach better. He provides... Read more
12.18.13 Assessment Literacy – Six Building Blocks to a High-Quality Test The value of any assessment is in the decisions it enables educators to make – it is always intended to be a tool for enhancing teaching and, ultimately, learning. Assessment is a process of... Read more
11.25.13 Five Characteristics of Quality Educational Assessments – Part Four This is our final blog post in the series that has broken down the five characteristics of quality educational assessments. Our first blog post highlighted the need for content validity and our... Read more
10.7.13 Formative Assessment – Revisiting the Exit Ticket It gives me great joy to see teachers so passionate about formative assessment and its ability to measure their students’ progress that they blog about it. Kimberlee Fulbright recently shared a... Read more
8.16.13 Formative assessment: What it is, why you should use it, and how to make it happen As the number of blog posts we’ve written on formative assessment continues to grow, I thought it would be a good idea to create a post that could serve as a general resource, sort of a go-to... Read more
1.16.13 Classroom techniques: Formative assessment idea number 7 We’ve blogged thus far on six formative assessment ideas that can be used at virtually no cost in your classroom to engage your entire class while providing you valuable information on student... Read more