These versatile strategies—from brain dumps to speed sharing—help students track their own progress while informing your next instructional steps.

Formative assessment is squishy. And squishy things don’t easily yield to standardized measurement. And that creates an awkward situation in an era of numbers-driven accountability. That squishiness ...

The need to learn from the practices of highly effective teachers to help more students excel is one of the great challenges elementary educators face. Research has shown the effectiveness of ...

Building frequent checks for understanding into lessons can help teachers spot learning gaps in real time and adjust ...

Why teachers should implement formal assessment In addition to being structured to identify students’ instructional needs, formative assessment provides real, authentic teacher-student interactions.

eInstruction has rolled out its new Insight 360, a formative instruction system with expanded capabilities for mobile users including iPad compatibility. The new system uses software, instructional ...

I applaud the effort by the Council of Chief State School Officers to clarify the term “formative assessment,” as reported in “Chiefs to Focus on Formative Assessments” (July 12, 2006). Without a ...

With increasing numbers of multilingual learners, representing over 20 languages and 65% of the student population, the ...