Sentences with phrase «formative information»

The pilot produced valuable formative information for a potential future project.

By providing a range of formative information about both the academic and the nonacademic aspects of school life, school climate data gives school leaders scientifically sound information to gauge and direct these efforts.

Organizations also need formative information to help teachers improve; they need indicators of a teacher's specific skills in classroom management, for instance, or her ability to provide meaningful feedback to students.

Once the CSRQ Center has collected enough formative information about the CSR reform model under review, CSRQ reviewers analyze the model's evidence of effectiveness and research base.

At CEM, the other original baseline provider, director Professor Robert Coe cites the fact that the government wants the baseline assessment to be used purely for accountability, rather than formative information for teachers, as a key flaw.

They can use the system to «spiral» the instruction of literacy skills and content or to «scaffold» in response to the formative information they gather on student performance from LDC mini-tasks.

[30] So, even if an additional measure gives evaluators little in the way of new summative information, it may be quite valuable for the formative information it provides.

To be truly helpful to students, formative information should be focused on the task, not the student; and the student must understand the feedback so as to make use of it.