Formative Assessment
A Beginners Guide
This site is a Beginners Guide to Formative Assessment aimed at those who are new to teaching and may be starting out with a classroom for the first time.
What is Formative Assessment?
What is 'best practice' when it comes to Formative Assessment?
Which Formative Assessment strategies are teachers using in the classroom?
What about Self-Assessment?
What resources are available?
Formative Assessment makes up a huge percentage of assessment undertaken in the classroom. It occurs regularly throughout the programme, across the curriculum and in each and every classroom. Formative Assessment is a significant aspect of the teaching and learning programme, assisting in informing teaching practice and improving student learning.
Teachers make changes to their teaching in response to student learning needs and development informed by Formative Assessment. Every teacher approaches Formative Assessment differently and focuses on what makes a difference to their students and their learning needs.
Formative Assessment is often referred to as; assessment for learning, informal assessment, and formative classroom practice. There are many different methods, strategies and resources to assist teachers in implementing Formative Assessment into the classroom successfully. Formative Assessment must be aligned to the teacher, students and classroom context to be successful, with hundreds of different techniques teachers must decide which ones will benefit their learners.
What is Formative Assessment?
What is 'best practice' when it comes to Formative Assessment?
Which Formative Assessment strategies are teachers using in the classroom?
What about Self-Assessment?
What resources are available?
Formative Assessment makes up a huge percentage of assessment undertaken in the classroom. It occurs regularly throughout the programme, across the curriculum and in each and every classroom. Formative Assessment is a significant aspect of the teaching and learning programme, assisting in informing teaching practice and improving student learning.
Teachers make changes to their teaching in response to student learning needs and development informed by Formative Assessment. Every teacher approaches Formative Assessment differently and focuses on what makes a difference to their students and their learning needs.
Formative Assessment is often referred to as; assessment for learning, informal assessment, and formative classroom practice. There are many different methods, strategies and resources to assist teachers in implementing Formative Assessment into the classroom successfully. Formative Assessment must be aligned to the teacher, students and classroom context to be successful, with hundreds of different techniques teachers must decide which ones will benefit their learners.