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Formative Assessments
Learn how to most effectively perform frequent checks for understanding, deliver meaningful feedback, and close learning gaps to empower every student to progress faster and achieve more.
Formative Assessment is not a moment in time, it’s a mindset. When embedded throughout instruction, formative assessments help teachers make immediate, informed decisions that guide student learning and accelerate achievement.
This learning experience equips educators to use two categories of formative assessments:
- Checks for Understanding and Assessment Prompts, and
- Align instructional decisions to evidence of student progress.
Learn the essential characteristics of effective formative assessment, develop prompts directly aligned to learning goals, and learn how to apply a decision-making process that ensures all students receive responsive instruction. Emphasis is placed on using formative data to adjust teaching, provide meaningful feedback, and proactively close learning gaps.
Key Takeaways
- Define and explain the essential elements of formative assessment.
- Distinguish between Checks for Understanding and Assessment Prompts and plan both types effectively.
- Design prompts aligned to standards-based learning goals using a structured planning process.
- Choose appropriate response strategies to gather evidence of learning.
- Use formative data to adjust instruction in real time and guide next steps.
- Apply a decision-making process that ensures instructional responsiveness and promotes mastery.
Formative Assessments
Professional Development Opportunities
Formative Assessments is a Targeted High-Yield Strategy.
Learning-Focused Targeted High-Yield Strategy Professional Development provides focused learning on a single High-Yield Instructional Strategy. Targeted High-Yield Strategy Professional Development gives you essential concepts, practical tools, clear examples, and implementation-ready ideas to implement a specific high yield strategy with clarity and purpose. By moving beyond theory into practice, this professional development helps you plan and apply the high-yield strategy with confidence and assurance that it will drive measurable student success.
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Effective teachers plan instruction to help ensure that students successfully meet established learning goals. They regularly use formative assessment to check for understanding and provide specific feedback so students know how they are doing with regard to each learning goal and what they need to do in order to improve.
Learn to carry out these processes both efficiently and effectively. You will be introduced to a variety of engaging strategies for assessing learning throughout a lesson and guidelines for making adjustments in instruction if needed.
- Regular price
- $30.00
Frequently asked questions
How much is shipping?
Regular ground shipping, which arrives in 7-10 business days, is free. Yes, FREE!
However, if you need faster shipping for an additional charge, call 866-955-3276 to place your order.
Do you offer quantity discounts?
We offer quantity discounts up to 10% on materials when purchased for a school-wide or district-wide professional development
training that we are providing at your location or when using with a Learning-Focused Online course.
Contact us to request a discount.
What is your return policy?
Learning-Focused will accept returns of products within 30 days of receipt of shipment for a refund. Learning-Focused will accept
returns of products within 45 days of receipt of shipment for an exchange or store credit. To qualify for return or exchange, products
must be unused.
Call 866-95-LEARN to arrange the return for a refund or exchange. Products purchased that are made to order (Coaches Binders,
Monitoring Binders, Redelivery Notes) will not be accepted for exchange or refund. Defective products will be exchanged for the same product only.
