1. Formative assessment is responses, comments, and or
feedback given to students instead of an actual score or grade.
2. The central purpose of formative assessment is student
learning and understanding.
3. You can use low stake writing assignments to institute a
formative assessment. By having students
write about different topics and giving them feedback and comments on their
papers without assigning points and grades is a research based strategy that is
a formative assessment.
4. The example that
it gives in this article is using a rubric that lists criteria for evaluating writing
and it can be used for a formative assessment by giving students feedback and
information on what is expected and can be used for summative assessment by
assigning a grade.
5. Students have a writing
notebook in which they do short stories in daily. At the end of each week the teacher collects
them and reads through the entries to see the direction in which students are
writing. She gives the students feedback
and then allows them to pick one of the articles that they liked the best, has
them make corrections and then they resubmit that one paper for a grade.
6. A way to make
formative assessment more effective is to provide students with detailed feedback
on specific areas of strength instead of a general praise of their abilities or
talents.
7. For students it
can offer an increased feeling of confidence and control among other benefits
and for teachers it can help identify students who are struggling with specific
tasks or operating under misconceptions.
8. Being able to distinguish
between high-quality formative assessment and assessment that is under-conceptualized
or not fully developed is the most challenging aspect or idea for teachers to
understand. Practices such as comment
only marking and peer evaluation are good ways to help implement high quality
assessments.
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