Check your understanding of formative assessment

Formative assessment helps teachers to:（more than one correct answer）

• check students' learning

• know students' learning needs

• make decisions on whether further teaching is required or they can move the lesson forward

• get students ‘lost’ in their learning

Teachers need to check learning only in the end of a lesson.

• True.

• False.

What’s the purpose of checking learning at the beginning of a lesson?

• to support and

  monitor the students’ new learning as it is being developed, applied and consolidated

• to check students’ understanding of previous learning so relevant links

  can be made to develop the required new learning

• to check if all the learning objectives have been achieved and if there are still any ‘gaps’ in the students’ learning

What’s the purpose of checking learning in the middle of a lesson?

• to check students’ understanding of previous learning so relevant links can be made to develop the required new learning

• to support and monitor the students’ new learning as it is being developed, applied and consolidated

• to check if all the learning objectives have been achieved and if there are still any ‘gaps’ in the students’ learning

What’s the purpose of checking learning at the end of a lesson?

• to check if all the learning objectives have been achieved and if there are still any ‘gaps’ in the students’ learning

• to check students’ understanding of previous learning so relevant links can be made to develop the required new learning

• to support and monitor the students’ new learning as it is being developed, applied and consolidated

Teacher questioning can be used as a formative assessment method.

• True

• False

Which strategies can help teachers use questioning effectively? （more than one correct answer）

• provide sufficient 'wait time'

• use closed questions only

• use 'no hand' approach

• show respect for all student answers, whether right or wrong