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:
A
- 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
D
- Draw It
- Demonstration Stations
- Discussions
- Doodle It
- Do’s and Don’ts
- Double Entry Journals
- Drawings
E
- Email Questions
- Entrance Tickets
- Examples/Non-Examples
- Exit Cards
- Explain What Matters
- Extension Projects
F
- Fingers Up!
- Fist of Five
- Flubaroo
- Four Corners
G
- Google Forms
- Graffiti Wall
- Graphic Organizers
H
- Hand In, Pass Out
- Hand Thermometer
I
- Individual Whiteboards
- Inside-Outside Circle
J
- Jigsaw Groups
- Journals
K
- Keep the Question Going
L
- Learning Logs
- Listening
- List Ten Things
M
- Make Predictions
- Matching Activities
- Mazur’s Concept Test
- Metacognition
- Mini-Whiteboards
- My Favorite No
N
- New Clothes
O
- Observations
- One-Minute Essays
- One-Minute Fluency
- One-Sentence Summaries
- Open-Ended Questions
P
- Paper Pass
- Parking Lot
- Partner Quizzes
- Peer-Assessments
- Photos to Assess Learning
- Placemats
- Popsicle Stick
- Postcard
- Problem Solving
- Process Exemplars
- Product Exemplars
Q
- Questionnaires
- Questioning
- Quick Nod
- Quick Writes
- Quiz
R
- Raised Hands
- Red/Green Card
- Reflection Journals
- Repeat Pre-assessments
- Response Cards
- Rotate Groups
- Round Robin Charts
- Running Records
S
- Self-Assessments
- Self-Directed Response
- Self-Marking Quizzes
- Sentence Prompts
- Show of Hands
- Socrative
- Strategic Questioning
- Student Composed Questions
T
- Talk to Each Other
- Teach a Friend
- Teach Younger Kids
- Text Rendering
- Text the Answer
- Think-Pair-Share
- Thirty-Second Share
- Three Facts and a Fib
- Three Minute Pause
- Three Most Common Misunderstandings
- Three Things
- Three, Two, One
- Three-Way Summaries
- Three Questions
- Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down
- Traffic Lights
- Turn and Talk
- Twitter Voting
- Two Roses and a Thorn
- Two Stars and a Wish
U
- Use Google Docs
V
- Venn Diagram
- Visualize (Be the Illustrator)
W
- Watch Body Language
- Whip Around
- Write It Down
- Writing Continuum
X
Y
- Yes/No Charts
Z