Formative assessment is an academic process that involves formal and informal assessment strategies and tools to gather information about student learning. Part of the assessment, teachers determine what students are understanding so far and what they still need to learn or master.
Formative assessment strategies are often used throughout a course of study or during the learning process, the results which serve as a basis for making adjustments to the instruction to better satisfy learner needs and learning styles.
List of Formative Assessment Strategies. The following is a list of classroom formative assessment strategies which may be used across various learning areas:
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- ABC Brainstorming
- ABCD Cards
- Active Prompt
- Analogies
- Analyzing Student Work
- Answer the LEQ
- Ask
- Assessment Reflections
B
- Back Channel
- Basketball Discussions
- Big Picture
C
- Chalkboard Splash
- Check for Transfer
- Checklists
- Choral Response
- Classroom Polls
- Clickers
- Cloze Procedure
- Cold-Calling
- Comments
- Computer Surveys
- Concept Maps
- Conferences
- Create a Video
- Create Something
- Creative Extension Projects
- Crowd-Source a Presentation
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