An assessment process used by teachers and students during instruction that provides feedback to adjust ongoing teaching and learning with the goals of improving students' achievement of intended instructional outcomes
Professional Learning FACT FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT FOR CLASSROOM TEACHERS Formative assessment practices are those that provide teachers and students with information about learning as it develops—not just at the end of a project, unit, or year. The information is formative because it enables adjustments that deepen learning: Teachers use formative assessment to make adjustments to instruction, and students use the feedback from formative assessments to make revisions to their work and their approaches to it.
Sue Brookhart, Brookhart Enterprises, and Heidi Andrade, University at Albany The NCME Classroom Assessment Task Force announces the launch of a new NCME resource: Formative Assessment for Classroom Teachers (FACT). The FACT resources support formative assessment practices that provide teachers and students with information about learning as it develops—not just at the end of a project, unit, or year. The beta version is available at https://www.ncme.org/resources/formative . We encourage you to take a look and share the link widely
Committees Classroom Assessment Committee UPCOMING Browse and attend NCME classroom assessment-related sessions at the 2024 NCME Annual Conference , April 11-14 in Philadelphia, PA. Consider also attending AERA Classroom Assessment SIG sessions
Equity and Assessment for Learning A Webinar Series organized by the NCME Classroom Assessment Committee Assessment for learning (Also known as ‘formative assessment’) can lead to profound changes in how students approach learning and substantial impacts on student achievement
Any systematic method of obtaining information from tests and other sources, used to draw inferences about characteristics of people, objects, or programs; a process designed to systematically measure or evaluate the characteristics or performance of individuals, programs, or other entities, for...
Finally, Matt Gaertner led the effort to build the new Formative Assessment for Classroom Teachers webpage with content developed by the Classroom Assessment Task Force. The website is designed to provide teachers with formative assessment practices that can be plugged into any curriculum and instruction. 2020 versus 2018 Website Views and Unique Visitors
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A specialized type of psychological assessment of normal or pathological processes affecting the central nervous system and the resulting psychological and behavioral functions or dysfunctions
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