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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 ...

Here at Teacher Beat, we’ve written ad nauseum about the challenge of integrating test scores or achievement data into teacher evaluations. But there are some equally big challenges to improving ...

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 ...

Assessment and feedback are recognised as pivotal components in higher education, crucial to shaping effective teaching and meaningful learning experiences. Contemporary research underscores the ...

Monitoring learning is essential in education. This is why you should know everything about formative and summative assessment. Here it is.

I recently had sad experiences at two national education conferences. As part of presentations at the ASCD annual conference and the American Educational Research Association conference, I asked ...

What happens when the $1.3 billion state summative assessment market begins to merge with the growing $1.6 billion market for formative assessments? Investors and the education community are closely ...

Does microcredit reduce poverty? Do laptops in schools improve student learning? If you believe in Randomized Control Trials (RCTs) as the only way to evaluate an intervention, the answers to the ...