What is Formative Assessment?

What is Formative Assessment?

• Evaluating students' learning at the end of a unit

• Assessment tasks to determine the pupils' level of understanding before the lesson

• continuous process of providing feedback to improve learning

• standardised test implemented at intervals of the school year

What are some ways to conduct formative assessment?

• Exit slips

• Peer Assessment

• Low stake forms and quizzes

• Video analysis

• All of the above

What is the purpose of conducting formative assessment?

• data for placement decisions

• Teachers to review and adjust his/her teaching

• accountability purposes

• Students to know their progress

In the following scenes observed in a PE class, which of these are formative assessment?

• Providing verbal feedback on progressions

• Pupils document their number of skips in a recording sheet.

• Pupils record the number of successful shots and provided areas of improvement. Partners are not allowed to see what was written.

• All of the above

• None of the above

What kind of formative assessments have you done before? :)