Sentences with phrase «informal assessment approaches»

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AISL seeks to advance new approaches to and evidence - based understanding of the design and development of STEM learning in informal environments; provide multiple pathways for broadening access to and engagement in STEM learning experiences; advance innovative research on and assessment of STEM learning in informal environments; and develop understandings of deeper learning by participants.

Demonstrate understanding of assessment strategies, including informal and formal, diagnostic, formative and summative approaches to assess student learning.

Importantly, studies also show that strategies such as formative assessment (formal and informal assessments conducted by teachers during the learning process in order to modify teaching and learning activities to improve student attainment) and metacognitive (awareness and understanding of one's own thought processes) approaches — techniques typically employed in personalized learning classrooms — improve student learning.

The majority of principals that we've talked to trust that their state will approach ESSA with good faith and full transparency and, as a first step, establish formal and informal groups of educators, including principals, to draft new plans for accountability and assessment systems.

In a family - centred approach to services, assessment and treatment are guided by the ecological context of the family, incorporating information about formal and informal community supports (Winters and Metz 2009; Winters and Pumariega 2007).