A recent study by researchers at Vanderbilt University finds that formative assessment—that is, ongoing, classroom-based assessment done by the teacher—can help improve students’ writing. Examples of ...

For decades, formative assessment has been a silent engine for learning—powering insights about student progress and worker ...

Student writing skills can be improved in the classroom by having teachers provide students regular feedback, track their progress, and encourage them to evaluate their own skills, finds a new report ...

There are few challenges in K-12 education quite as problematic as formative assessment. This process, through which teachers evaluate how well their students are learning while they are teaching them ...

When designing formative assessments, instructors need to think about aligning the assessed knowledge and skills, as well the assessment format itself, with desired learning outcomes and with the ...

Over the past three years, Joshua Wilson, assistant professor in the University of Delaware’s School of Education (SOE), has studied how computer software could be used to evaluate and improve student ...

Turnitin has launched Revision Assistant, a formative writing tool giving students immediate, actionable feedback on all aspects of student writing. Turnitin Revision Assistant, for grades 6-12 and ...

Turnitin and College Board will partner to provide students with productive writing practice opportunities and help develop college ready skills Turnitin has announced a multi-year extension of its ...

To start, a question: What’s the difference between formative assessment and summative assessment? It’s not enough to say merely that formative assessment is a measure of student achievement ...