Formative Assessment: The Right Question at the Right Time
This blog post provides easily accessible information on what formative assessment is. It focuses on questioning as a strategy for eliciting evidence of student learning.
This blog post provides easily accessible information on what formative assessment is. It focuses on questioning as a strategy for eliciting evidence of student learning.
Guidance
Clarke, S.
Education Week
2015
Early Learning Elementary School (K-5) High School (9-12) Middle School (6-8)
Assessment Curriculum and Instruction
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This blog post provides valuable information on how to construct rich questions to determine students’ prior knowledge, misconceptions, and developing understandings. It provides good examples of a range of question types and elaborates on how the use of these questions helps further student engagement and deepen student thinking.