One modern educational innovation is a method called “formative assessment,” but an array of definitions and applications complicate the ability of experts to measure the effectiveness of this ...

Notably, this definition describes formative assessment as a process rather than an assessment instrument, tool or product.

Formative assessment is versatile--teachers can turn almost any sort of assignment into a type of digital formative assessment.

Ask five teachers what formative assessment is and you're likely to get five different definitions.

This article is concerned with the relationship between assessment information and teacher planning. In the UK, although planning used to be central to characterisations of formative assessment, the ...

SimCity As game-based learning gains momentum in education circles, teachers increasingly want substantive proof that games are helpful for learning. The game-makers at the non-profit GlassLab are ...