Through informal assessment, a teacher becomes a guide throughout the learning process, rather than the judge of the student’s final product. While committing to formative—or informal—assessment ...

Every teacher knows the scene: the endless stack of papers, the empty gradebook columns staring you in the face, and the large cup of coffee ready to get you through the night. Like most English ...

Formative assessments are tools used during instruction to provide real-time feedback, helping both students and educators make immediate improvements. Unlike summative assessments, which evaluate ...

This post is by Adriana Martinez, the Innovation Program Manager at CCSSO. For years, states have taken the lead in exploring how to create better ways to assess students. In 2016, New Hampshire ...

Formative assessment practices have been shown to improve science instruction. However, examples of teachers’ moment-to-moment informal formative assessment practices are still sparse. This ...

There are countless ways to assess students. Speaking broadly, two key assessment categories are “summative” and “formative”. Summative assessment, often the most popular one, aims to measure how much ...