Formative Assessment Strategies - MBMCS

What is the purpose of providing students with opportunities to support each other through the learning process?

• To discourage interaction among students

• To increase workload for students

• To encourage collaboration and peer feedback

• To create competition among students

What is the key objective of nurturing confident lifelong learners?

• To prioritize individual accountability in group tasks

• To equip students with metacognitive strategies

• To implement surveys to address students' feelings

• To focus on students' marks or grades

What are learning intentions and success criteria useful for?

• For detracting from long-term goals

• For planning teaching and evaluating teaching

• For evaluating teaching

• For creating checkboxes

What is the value of eliciting evidence of what students can do?

• For informed decision-making in the teaching and learning process

• For increasing workload for teachers

• For promoting passive participation with mini whiteboards

• For planning quality questions with colleagues

What is the intention of feedback according to Wiliam and Leahy?

• To be more work for the donor than the recipient

• To be unclear and unhelpful

• To allocate subsequent class time for students to respond

• To improve the work, not the learner

What is the ultimate goal of the strategies presented in the book 'Embedding Formative Assessment'?

• To increase students' marks or grades

• To guide students to become independent learners

• To create competition among students

• To detract from long-term goals

What is the role of peer feedback in the learning process?

• To increase workload for students

• To support each other through the learning process

• To discourage interaction among students

• To create competition among students

What is the focus of encouraging students to use traffic light colours to judge their understanding?

• To focus on continuous improvement, not students' marks or grades

• To implement surveys to address students' feelings

• To prioritize individual accountability in group tasks

• To equip students with metacognitive strategies

What is the value of purposeful high-order questioning in the teaching and learning process?

• To promote passive participation with mini whiteboards

• To engage students and provide insights into their knowledge

• To plan quality questions with colleagues

• To increase workload for teachers

What is the intention of feedback according to Wiliam and Leahy?

• To allocate subsequent class time for students to respond

• To be more work for the donor than the recipient

• To be unclear and unhelpful

• To improve the work, not the learner