For decades, formative assessment has been a silent engine for learning—powering insights about student progress and worker ...

The Graduate Student Services (GSS) office is pioneering new ways of growing the intellectual, ethical, social, and spiritual capacities of Lynch School master’s and doctoral candidates. A new set of ...

I love hyphens. Always have. Always will. If used properly, hyphens make things easier to read. This is because hyphenated words let readers know there’s something still coming in a phrase that’s ...

In today’s new environment of online, remote learning, the need for teachers and school administrators to get immediate feedback on student progress is of paramount importance. This type of feedback, ...

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 ...

There are countless ways to assess students. Speaking broadly, two key assessment categories are “summative” and “formative”. Summative assessment, often the most popular one, aims to measure how much ...

Tests are king in many school systems and other educational environments: they are seen as an efficient way to assess what knowledge students have retained, and how well they do on a level playing ...

Eli has been eagerly pursuing a journalistic career since he left the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill School of Journalism. Previously, Eli was a staff reporter for medical trade publication ...

Formative assessment began long before blended learning. Teachers have used formative assessment for decades as a method to get feedback about how students are progressing in their learning (see ...

SANTA MONICA, Calif. & BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Formative, a SaaS-based real-time student data platform, today announced a $70 million minority investment led by global growth investor Summit Partners ...