At the recent annual conference of the National Council of Teachers of English, Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey, both education professors at San Diego State University and teachers at Health Sciences ...

Everything about school provides some sort of formative feedback to students. By formative, we mean “shaping or molding.” Indeed, everything about a learning environment shapes and molds the overall ...

This policy details the requirement that medical students are provided with formative feedback by midpoint of a required course or clerkship that is four or more weeks in duration. This policy ...

There are few challenges in K-12 education quite as problematic as formative assessment. This process, through which teachers evaluate how well their students are learning while they are teaching them ...

Building frequent checks for understanding into lessons can help teachers spot learning gaps in real time and adjust ...

The LSE Academic Code, developed in partnership with LSE Students’ Union, sets out what we do to deliver a consistent student experience across the School and clarifies what students can expect from ...

There are countless ways to assess students. Speaking broadly, two key assessment categories are “summative” and “formative”. Summative assessment, often the most popular one, aims to measure how much ...