Formative Assessment

Traditional math assessments tend to provide a narrow gauge of student learning—here’s how some teachers are going deeper.

Clarity about learning objectives and questions that focus on the thinking process can lessen the chance that students will cheat.

Carefully deciding what to grade and providing students with rubrics can make grading less time-consuming.

Finding out what your students are really learning remains indispensable to teaching. Here’s what teachers are doing to check for understanding online. 

Giving grades that truly reflect student learning is one of the perennial problems in teaching, and these shifts in thinking about how to gather and report grades can help.

A few ways to set up formative and summative assessments that provide an accurate picture of what students know.

Many teachers find it difficult to gauge how well students understand a lesson in an online classroom. A technique common among award-winning online instructors should help.

The pandemic has revealed—and exacerbated—inequities that hold many students back. Here’s how teachers can help.

Getting a true sense of students’ learning and discouraging cheating is tough when some students are in the room and some are at home, but it can be done.

These techniques guide all students to process course content and then actively demonstrate their learning.

Particularly in this difficult year, providing clear feedback is key to helping elementary students achieve learning goals.