Formative Assessments

Formative Assessments

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—to 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.

 


With this Formative Assessments professional learning, you will be able to…

•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.

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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.

$40.00

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