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Formative assessment is a planned process in which assessment- elicited evidence of students’ status is used by teachers to adjust their ongoing instructional procedures or by students to adjust their current learning tactics. Pg 6 W. James Popham 2008
Formative assessment is: a planned process assessment-elicited evidence of students’ status is used by teachers to adjust their ongoing instructional procedures or by students to adjust their current learning tactics.
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Homework Questions – Evidence of students status Homework Questions – Evidence of students status Put on your student hat:
Item Report Teachers make adjustments Item Report Teachers make adjustments Item Report S tudents make adjustments
Skill Builders
Put on your student hat: Students work until they reach 3 right in a row
Teachers respond to report – make adjustments Teachers respond to report – make adjustments
Online Tutoring Students make adjustments Online Tutoring Students make adjustments
Reflections
Put on your student hat: Assign the reflection
Item Report – Used by teachers to make adjustments Item Report – Used by teachers to make adjustments
Item Report – Used by teachers to comment to students Item Report – Used by teachers to comment to students
Student Item Report –Used by Students to make adjustments
Formative Assessments
Put on your student hat: Formative Questions Evidence of students status Formative Questions Evidence of students status
Item Report – Used by teachers to make adjustments Item Report – Used by teachers to make adjustments
Online Tutoring Students make adjustments Online Tutoring Students make adjustments
Assist Correctness feedback Hints Tutoring Assess The first response is marked on the Item report
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