Formative Assessment Quiz

What is the purpose of formative assessment?

• To provide information for the teacher so that feedback can be used to adjust the teaching and learning activities to support progress.

• To provide written feedback from the teacher so that pupils can re-draft their work and therefore make progress.

• To gather data that can be used for reporting purposes.

• To evaluate the final performance of students at the end of a term.

What is the purpose of cold calling?

• To catch the pupils out, if they are not paying attention.

• To create an inclusive classroom, which aims to engage all pupils, enabling the teacher to collect feedback systematically.

• To give pupils confidence because the questions are always easy enough for all pupils to answer them.

• To ensure only the best students participate in class discussions.

Which of these statements does NOT explain the true purpose of a retrieval quiz?

• Teachers can review pupils’ understanding of previously learned material

• Quizzing strengthens long term memory retention and understanding

• Quizzing helps pupils focus on rote memorization

• Retrieval quizzing provides feedback so that teachers can adjust teaching and learning activities to support progress

Why should teachers use success criteria when setting learning activities?

• Pupils need to understand what good looks like in order to be successful. This is an important feature of an inclusive classroom.

• Progress needs to be made in every activity and success criteria enable teachers to measure progress.

• Success criteria create a low stakes, low anxiety environment.

• Success criteria are only useful for advanced students.

Which of the following statements explain the benefits of 'show me' as a strategy?

• Immediate feedback enables the teachers to make real-time adjustments.

• The strategy is data driven – it generates actionable data to guide the direction of the lesson.

• It is a versatile technique that can be used across subject disciplines utilising short answer, multiple choice and other questioning approaches.

• Emotional or social pressures may influence how a pupil self-reports their understanding.