Formative assessment strategies

How can you move learning forward using formative assessment strategies in your classroom?

Get them excited to show you what they know!

In this post, you will find 20 Formative Assessment Tools for Your Classroom! Formative assessment is such an essential part of the learning process and student success, and many digital tools can help support this process. This list has a wide variety of features and options to help you solidify your formative assessment strategies! Many of the tools below are great for both formative and summative assessments.

Checking for Understanding Formative Assessment Exit Slips

15 Ways to Check for Understanding. It's important to continually check with your students for their understanding during a lesson. #classroom #teaching

There is a very wide variety of digital formative assessment tools that can be used for free. Here are 15 of them. #CultofPedagogyPin

Whether they're completed on a piece of paper, a tablet, or a whiteboard, exit tickets are a powerful tool to use in your classroom. Exit tickets are formative assessments that provide a quick snapshot about your students' learning and understanding of a topic faster than any other tool in the classroom.

Hey everyone! It's Deanna here from A Primary Owl! Today, I am talking formative assessments....this has been a huge push in my school this year. We have been focusing on Formative Instructional Practices like posting clear learning targets for students, making sure students know their learning targets and regular formative assessments to drive your instruction. So, I want to share with you 5 quick ways you can check for understanding during or after your lesson. You probably already use…

Ten formative and summative assessment examples to add to your repertoire and to inspire you teaching practice immediately!

Monica Burns, author of #FormativeTech, shares essential tools and tips for effective formative assessment. Learn how to get results. Pick some tools. Accelerate learning.

Check out these 75 formative assessment ideas, and save this pin for whenever you need to come up with an idea for formative assessment!

Informal Formative Assessment Strategies

Any great teacher or coach is constantly assessing performance and giving timely and direct feedback. Formative assessments are paramount in the math classroom. There are some assessments that are more formal than others, but you have to plan them in order to make sure they happen. Also, you shouldn’t do assessments just because you’re supposed […]

Teachers, use these 5 assessment strategies to quickly understand your students’ needs! These simple to implement assessments will provide guidance to drive your instruction. Read all about how to use them in your Kindergarten, 1st, or 2nd grade classroom! Tips include post-it notes, rating scale, exit tickets, and MORE! Use with any lesson including literacy, math, whole group, small group, or virtual instruction! Get FREE math exit tickets to try out today with your students!

Formative Assessments do not need to be difficult. This post will cover 12 ways to quickly and easily check for student understanding in the classroom.

Exit Ticket freebie included in our 10 tips and ideas to help you when planning an authentic assessment for your students. Assessing a student’s learning is an integral part of teaching. An assessment aims to measure what your students have learned or will be learning in the future. #rainbowskycreations

Formative Assessment in Middle & High School

The idea of student engagement and assessment from MINUTE ONE of DAY ONE, sounds a bit crazy, right?

Great teachers like you know the importance of having various assessments guiding their teaching, but specific types of assessments should happen at particular times in the learning process. There are differences between assessment for learning vs. assessment of learning in math! Check out this post for a review of these assessment types and get some great math lesson ideas for primary grades at the same time. You won't want to miss the FREE math assessment forms included!

For too many art teachers, assessment remains a difficult concept. It’s tough to know what’s going to work, how it can be implemented, and how it can be incorporated to actually help improve teaching. In this episode, Tim takes on some of these concerns and shares his ideas on making assessment valuable. Heather Crocket, the […]