Formative Assessment helps students to answer the following questions: (Click arrow for citation link.)por Christina Campbell
1. 3. HOW CAN I CLOSE THE GAP?
1.1. * Give students feedback and have them use it to set goals. * Have students graph or describe their progress on specific learning targets. * Ask students to comment on their progress: What changes have they noticed? What is easy that used to be hard? What insights into themselves as learners have they discovered?
2. 1. WHERE AM I NOW?
2.1. * Administer a nongraded quiz part-way through the learning, to help both teacher and students understand who needs to work on what. * Highlight phrases on a scoring guide reflecting specific strengths and areas for improvement and staple it to student work. * Have students identify their own strengths and areas for improvement using a scoring guide. * Have students keep a list of learning targets for the course and periodically check off the ones they have mastered.
3. 2. WHERE AM I GOING?
3.1. * Give students a list of the learning targets they are responsible for mastering, written in student-friendly language. * Show students anonymous strong and weak examples of the kind of product or performance they are expected to create and have them use a scoring guide to determine which one is better and why.
