Feedback from teachers to their students boosts their motivation to improve on their learning strategies. In addition, when ...

Carol Boston says “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 ...

There are few challenges in K-12 education quite as problematic as formative assessment. This process, through which teachers evaluate how well their students are learning while they are teaching them ...

Formative assessment is squishy. And squishy things don’t easily yield to standardized measurement. And that creates an awkward situation in an era of numbers-driven accountability. That squishiness ...

The National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 emphasises on regular formative assessment that enables student learning, rather than summative assessments that encourage a coaching culture. What is ...

This essay is excerpted from a new Chronicle special report, “Building a Faculty that Flourishes,” available in the Chronicle Store. Mention peer review of teaching in a faculty meeting, and you’re ...

Can term-end summative examination as a form of assessment be done away with totally? Not just yet, given the 60 % weightage that it enjoys in the current structure of assessment. However, the ...