formative assessment

noun

1. ongoing assessment of a pupil's educational development within a particular subject area Compare summative assessment

Example Sentences

The research paper, supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation, said: “In contrast to the traditional system, where assessments are used solely to provide a final, summative judgment of student performance, formative assessment uses assessments intermittently to provide teachers and/or students with feedback about each student’s progress. This enables teachers and students to adapt their teaching and learning strategies to help each student progress based on their individual needs.”

From Washington Post

The study focused on an approach called formative assessment — what effect grading by learning outcomes and reassessing student progress can have.

From Washington Post

Formative assessment is how teachers monitor students’ progress during the course of a unit: through discussion, observation and feedback on classwork tasks, and brief end-of-lesson assignments.

From Slate

In the fall of 2017, 46 percent of new kindergartners in the Dubuque public schools met benchmarks on the Formative Assessment System for Teachers, or FAST, reading assessment.

From Washington Times

He believes the education department’s plan, using Keenville, a game-based formative assessment, “does not meet this need.”

From Washington Times