Using frequent ungraded classroom assessments can help teachers guide students to focus more on learning and less on test scores.

The National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 emphasises on regular formative assessment that enables student learning, rather than summative assessments that encourage a coaching culture. What is ...

Before outlining formative assessment’s undeniable importance, context regarding assessments as a whole is warranted. Oftentimes, schools use different types of assessment to inform instructional ...

Diana Laurillard of the UCL Knowledge Lab outlines digital instruction methods that help with formative assessment, or assessment for learning, rather than summative assessment for grading. She gives ...

In the post-COVID pandemic educational setting, assessment offers ways to gain crucial insights into student thinking and learning and the areas requiring support for progress toward learning goals.

The accelerated digitization of today’s classroom impacts every aspect of instruction–from attendance to summative assessment and everything in between. As educators have shifted to the hybrid ...

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 ...

European Journal of Psychology of Education, Vol. 33, No. 1, Special Issue: Promoting learning by leveraging the collaborative nature of formative per assessment with instructional scaffolds (January ...