Sentences with phrase «evidence about formative assessment»

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(Varied Assessments) Continuous, authentic, and appropriate assessment measures, including both formative and summative ones, provide evidence about every student's learning progress.

Because formative assessment strategies and techniques produce so much information about student learning, formative assessment experts must be adept at recognizing which information is critical evidence for moving teaching and learning forward and which information is not.

Accomplished formative assessment teachers work fluently and automatically within the current instructional context to address students» immediate learning needs in real time — rapidly processing evidence of student thinking and learning, automatically considering the learning targets, then making advantageous decisions about the next steps of instruction to move learning forward, sometimes with a plan B or even C in mind.

The resources in this channel explain what formative assessment is, why it's important for teachers to use this approach in the classroom, and how to use formative assessments to gather evidence about student learning and use this evidence to adjust teaching.

But I believe it should be called formative assessment because it's about the quality of evidence that teachers have for their instructional decisions.

Formative assessment involves teachers using evidence of pupils» understanding and learning to make decisions, minute - by - minute and day - by - day, about the next steps in teaching and learning.

Is there a way to engage in the essential work of formative assessment, feedback, and differentiated instruction, while still gathering enough summative evidence for a twice - a-week standard to make a professional judgment about learning?