Within these methods you’ll find close to 40 tools and tricks for finding out what your students know while they’re still learning.
Formative assessment—discovering what students know while they’re still in the process of learning it—can be tricky. Designing just the right assessment can feel high stakes—for teachers, not students—because we’re using it to figure out what comes next. Are we ready to move on? Do our students need a different path into the concepts? Or, more likely, which students are ready to move on and which need a different path?
By Laura Thomas
April 26, 2019