For decades, formative assessment has been a silent engine for learning—powering insights about student progress and worker ...

Tests are an important tool in educators' arsenal. Photo by Andy Rennle/Flickr CC 2.0 We live in an age of assessment in education. One of my friends -- who happens to be a vice president of a large ...

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 ...

Formative assessment is meant for learning assessment, i.e., it is used to measure how much a student has learned up to a particular period. Teachers use formative assessments to evaluate a student’s ...

As education policy moves away from the much-maligned No Child Left Behind and toward new legislation focusing on learning outcomes, technology-enabled formative assessments are moving to the ...

I love hyphens. Always have. Always will. If used properly, hyphens make things easier to read. This is because hyphenated words let readers know there’s something still coming in a phrase that’s ...

SANTA MONICA, Calif. & BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Formative, a SaaS-based real-time student data platform, today announced a $70 million minority investment led by global growth investor Summit Partners ...

Evidence is gathered about student achievement or understanding. The information allows the instructor or learner to alter future instructional steps. It is done to improve learning outcomes (Black & ...

There’s a war of sorts going on within the normally staid assessment industry, and it’s a war over the definition of a type of assessment that many educators understand in only the sketchiest fashion.