The recent Gonski report argues Australia needs assessment and reporting models that capture both achievement progress and long-term learning progress. This, according to the review panel, involves ...

Formative assessment comprises techniques that are used to monitor student learning and to provide ongoing feedback. The aim of formative assessment is to provide information on student struggles that ...

I love hyphens. Always have. Always will. If used properly, hyphens make things easier to read. This is because hyphenated words let readers know there’s something still coming in a phrase that’s ...

I am going to start with a rather big claim: asking and responding to diagnostic questions is the single most important thing I do every lesson. This article will be my attempt to convince you why.

In an educational system such as France’s, assessment takes on particular importance because it underpins both the design of instruction and the determination of whether a student is ready to advance ...

The following practices guide instructor strategies for developing and implementing summative assignments (Nicol and Macfarlane-Dick, 2006; Yale, 2017). There are a number of ways to assess students’ ...

According to the well-known Backward Design approach (Wiggins & McTighe, 2012), there are three steps that instructors should move through as they create a learning experience: Choosing the right ...

A diagnostic assessment may sound like a medical exam but it's actually an educational tool. It's one of several types of assessment that teachers use to measure how much a child knows. A teacher may ...

What happens when the $1.3 billion state summative assessment market begins to merge with the growing $1.6 billion market for formative assessments? Investors and the education community are closely ...

BROOKLYN, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Amplify, a publisher of next-generation curriculum and assessment programs, announced today that the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (DPI) has selected ...

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 & ...

Summative assessments are implemented at the end of a unit, course, or instructional period to evaluate how well students have achieved the learning objectives, such as knowledge, skills, and ...