Using frequent ungraded classroom assessments can help teachers guide students to focus more on learning and less on test scores.

My story last week on formative assessment prompted a reader to pose a question about how it relates to the concept of “mastery learning” as he was practicing it in his classroom. Intrigued, I asked ...

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.

When education systems around the world responded to the COVID-19 pandemic with intermittent closures and hybrid learning modalities, the role of learning assessment as a fundamental feedback ...

Tests are king in many school systems and other educational environments: they are seen as an efficient way to assess what knowledge students have retained, and how well they do on a level playing ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In this paper, we describe an effort to develop and evaluate an innovative formative assessment to gather evidence about middle school ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract ABSTRACT Much of the focus on learning technologies has been on structuring innovative learning experiences and on managing distance and ...