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Formative assessment began long before blended learning. Teachers have used formative assessment for decades as a method to get feedback about how students are progressing in their learning (see ...

British Educational Research Journal, Vol. 29, No. 5, 'In Praise of Educational Research' (Oct., 2003), pp. 623-637 (15 pages) The authors trace the development of the King's Formative Assessment ...

Evidence is gathered about student achievement or understanding. The information allows the instructor or learner to alter future instructional steps. It is done to improve learning outcomes (Black & ...

There’s a lot of confusion about what formative assessments actually are and what they do. My colleague Catherine Gewertz interviewed Meghan Pazmino, a math coach at Ross Elementary School in ...

Further, activities, assignments and separate assessments can all serve a variety of these purposes. For example, a group research project may proceed by stages in which students are given feedback ...

Increasingly, researchers seem to be developing teaching and learning tools for English-language learners at the secondary level. For years, we’ve had researchers from the Center for Applied ...