Formative+Assessment

= **Formative Assessment ** =

Formative Assessment can be defined by interpreting the following: //Black and Wiliam (1998b) define assessment broadly to include all activities that teachers and students undertake to get information that can be used diagnostically to alter teaching and learning. Assessments become formative when the information is used to adapt teaching and learning to meet student needs// (Boston, Carol - **Publication Date:** 2002-10-00 )

I use informal formative assessment frequently in my classroom but developed a more formal structure of formative assessment for this grant. The reasoning behind a more formal structure of formative assessment is so that I could gauge student learning and have concrete evidence and data to analyze.


 * I created a Google Document which I linked to my Wiki in order for my students to have easy access. (Copy attached below)
 * I copied the Achievement Series test questions and had the students answer the form periodically throughout our unit.
 * The students and I looked over the test questions and their answers to see which areas they needed to improve on.
 * I went through strategies for answering questions in general in terms of the reading standard 11.R.4.1
 * The form was an efficient and effective way for my students and I to gage their progress in learning the selected standard.

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Below you will find a copy of the "Google Form" I used as a formative assessment. **

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