Students often draw upon a diverse set of prior understanding and experiences when attempting to explain phenomena. Formative assessment allows teachers to better understand students’ alternative ...

Summative assessments evaluate learning at the end of a unit, course, or instructional period. While typically used to gauge final outcomes, these assessments can also serve formative purposes, ...

Selecting tools to use in an assessment process can be a surprisingly challenging endeavor. Part of the challenge is how many tools are on the market, and the other challenge is getting enough ...

Further, activities, assignments and separate assessments can all serve a variety of these purposes. For example, a group research project may proceed by stages in which students are given feedback ...

You might have taken the Harry Potter quiz to discover which Hogwarts house the sorting hat would have placed you in, but unless you have a magic, mind-reading hat stashed in your home office, ...