Formative Assessment

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

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.

When feedback originates with students, they can assess their current understanding and see what they need to do to improve.

Schools are closed but schooling goes on, and it remains crucial that teachers find ways to see what students are learning.

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Within these methods you’ll find close to 40 tools and tricks for finding out what your students know while they’re still learning.

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

Checking for understanding is good for both students and teachers. We’ve rounded up a variety of digital tools to help you do it.

Gather and use valuable student data to inform your classroom practice.

Feedback is an essential part of learning, but not all of it is productive. We’ve collected five best practices for giving students feedback.

Formative assessment can be as simple as thumbs up or down and as creative as having students illustrate a page of a story.