Formative assessment is a planned process in which assessment-elicited evidence of students’ status is used by teachers to adjust their ongoing instructional practices or by students to adjust their current learning tactics.
-James Popham

Essential Questions

Essential Questions

  • What makes an assessment high quality?
  • How can formative assessment increase student involvement and motivation?
  • How can accurate formative assessment information be used to shape the instructional process?

Enduring Understandings

Enduring Understandings

  • High quality assessments provide accurate information when used effectively to increase student understanding and motivate students to learn.
  • High quality assessment principles such as clear purpose, learning targets, and sound design allow teachers to create accurate assessments that can be used to collect accurate information about student learning.
  • When effectively used, accurate assessment information can be used to adjust instruction, provide descriptive feedback and implement differentiated instruction and flexible grouping.
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