Teaching Using a Formative Assessment Strategy

Learning Objectives

Be familiar with the concept “formative assessment”, its rationale, purpose and tools.
Recognize the benefits of formative assessment.
Provide examples and resources to support its implementation.
Identify the standard of work that a student is presently achieving thus providing information about progress to date.
Give feedback to students so that they can move forward in their learning.
Help a student to understand what is expected of him/her in relation to academic expectations.
Give suggestions as to how to develop work further in order to improve build the self efficacy of a student.
Provides a safe environment in which students can make mistakes and learn from them.
Enable students to improve their self-regulatory skills so that they manage their education in a less haphazard fashion.
Help students to set short term goals, assist them in managing time and build self efficacy all important elements of success.
Develop a student’s ability to self assess in a formative manner so that they develop the skills of self-evaluation necessary for lifelong learning.
Build many opportunities to assess how students are learning and then use this information to make beneficial changes in instruction.