Into the Driver's Seat

Defining Formative Assessment

Overall, we’ve done a good job helping students “learn how to learn.” One of the biggest growth opportunities today is to help teachers and students to “know how they know.”

Educators skilled at designing formative assessment practice are able to understand where students are and where they need to be on a daily basis and adapt learning experiences accordingly.

The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) recently adopted the following definition of formative assessment:

Formative assessment is a planned, ongoing process used by all students and teachers during learning and teaching to elicit and use evidence of student learning to improve student understanding of intended disciplinary learning outcomes, and support students to become more self-directed learners.

~ CCSSO FAST SCASS Austin, Texas, June 2017

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Thank you for this one! Anything like this that is straight forward and free of technical jargon is most welcome in my book.  I'm quite positive a high falutin' professor could very easily bore us to tears with reams and reams of academic justification backed by decades of research  to tell us these points. Interesting though that is... Thankfully you've scooped a classroom teachers perspective. Hallelujah! 5 points that speak directly to a teacher starting out in the profession. I'm your new fan.