Formative has now helped over 8 million learners. It’s a far cry from an idea in graduate school seven years ago, when no one knew who they were or what they did.

But if formative assessment is regarded as nothing more than a specific sort of test, its impact is apt to be trivial. How this important educational drama unfolds may depend, at least a bit, on ...

Formative assessment began long before blended learning. Teachers have used formative assessment for decades as a method to get feedback about how students are progressing in their learning (see ...

“I had not heard, frankly, that there was some resistance to companies selling formative assessment,” said Robert Block, the associate vice president for K-12 learning and development at the ...

Parents Like Formative Assessment--and Their Kids' Teachers Parents want classroom teachers to be the primary decision-makers when it comes to what their children learn--and they want them to have the ...

Project Summary The Formative Leadership Education Project was recently awarded a grant from the Kern Family Foundation entitled “Expanding the Reach of Formative Leadership Education by Building ...

Indian Prairie School District 204 is piloting a weighted grading system this year, with the goal of standardizing grading and promoting equity across the district, according to district ...