Formative Assessment
Find and share ideas for checking in with students during a project, class, or semester to assess their learning and see if content or instruction needs adjusting.
Improving Your Pre-Unit Assessment
Periodically challenging students with grade-level content they haven’t yet mastered helps construct deeper connections to key concepts.26560-Second Strategy: Whiteboard Relay
The team competition is fierce in this informal assessment activity, in which students have to work together to win.3.2kInviting Participation With Thumbs-Up Responses
A quick assessment strategy replaces raised hands, encouraging more students to contribute by accommodating their different processing needs.122.3kReinventing Your School Data Wall
Student data can be organized in ways that better encourage organic conversations around the trends you’re tracking.139
7 Smart, Fast Ways to Do Formative Assessment
Within these methods you’ll find close to 40 tools and tricks for finding out what your students know while they’re still learning.66.3k10 Powerful Ways to End Your Lessons
Instead of cleaning up or going over homework assignments, try these creative activities that can help students make sense of new material—and have fun in the process.6.1k
Covid-19’s Impact on Students’ Academic and Mental Well-Being
The pandemic has revealed—and exacerbated—inequities that hold many students back. Here’s how teachers can help.28k13 Formative Assessments That Inspire Creativity
Sometimes mixing in formative assessments that go a step beyond exit slips and low-stakes quizzes can inject some fun—and creativity—into learning.6.3k
8 Quick Checks for Understanding
Formative assessment is a proven technique for improving student learning, and the strategies shared here by Jay McTighe work both in the classroom and remotely.17.6k3 Quick Feedback Techniques to Help Students Stay on Track
These formative assessment strategies allow teachers to provide targeted feedback that students can use immediately.435
3 Ways to Ask Questions That Engage the Whole Class
These techniques guide all students to process course content and then actively demonstrate their learning.22.3k
Formative Assessment in Distance Learning
The pandemic has closed schools, but schooling goes on—and it remains crucial that teachers find ways to see what students are learning.18.9k7 Ways to Do Formative Assessments in Your Virtual Classroom
Finding out what your students are really learning remains indispensable to teaching. Here’s what teachers are doing to check for understanding online.14.7k
3 Ways Student Data Can Inform Your Teaching
Gather and use valuable student data to inform your classroom practice.30.3kDelivering Effective Feedback With Microsoft OneNote
This tool gives teachers the opportunity to observe students as they work and provide helpful feedback in real time.3264
