One of the two big groups of states that are designing tests for the Common Core State Standards has pared back its plans to produce diagnostic and formative assessment tools because it had to use ...

You’ve checked for understanding—now you can use this framework to understand what students’ confusion is telling you, and how you can adjust course.

Formative assessments are tools used during instruction to provide real-time feedback, helping both students and educators make immediate improvements. Unlike summative assessments, which evaluate ...

Assessment is not a monolithic concept. This is not an article about the Beatles, but it is about something that for 40 years has had educators swooning and screaming, and school critics dancing in ...

NORTH BILLERICA, Mass., Oct. 22, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The South Carolina Department of Education (SCDE) recently approved Curriculum Associates' i-Ready Diagnostic for its Adoption List of Formative ...

Cognitive diagnostic assessment and modelling represents an evolving frontier in educational measurement by providing detailed profiles of individuals’ mastery of specific skills and knowledge ...

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 ...

Assessment and feedback are essential activities in student learning and there are many e-learning tools available to assist staff in this area. Here we focus mainly on tools for assessment and ...

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