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Formative Assessment Process
Understanding the Formative Assessment Process
Understanding the Formative Assessment Process
The Formative Assessment Process
The Formative Assessment Process
The Formative Assessment Process is a deliberate process used by teachers and students during instruction that provides actionable feedback that is used to adjust ongoing teaching and learning strategies to improve students’ attainment of curricular learning targets/goals.
The formative assessment process has four attributes:
- Clarify: determine what students will learn and how they will know they have learned it;
- Elicit: generate evidence of student learning, such as asking questions;
- Interpret: review evidence to determine students’ progress towards the learning goal(s); and
- Act: take instructional next steps to move students from where they are to where they need to be, such as re-teaching using a different mode.