Everything about school provides some sort of formative feedback to students. By formative, we mean “shaping or molding.” Indeed, everything about a learning environment shapes and molds the overall ...

With increasing numbers of multilingual learners, representing over 20 languages and 65% of the student population, the ...

1 Department of Curriculum and Instruction, The Education University of Hong Kong, Tai Po, Hong Kong SAR, China 2 School of Materials and New Energy Xingzhi College, South China Normal University, ...

Like many other concerned teachers, I’ve been reading the Obama administration’s blueprint for how educational reforms should unfold. Most of the ideas revolve around using a national curriculum that ...

These objectives are crafted by educators based on the various standards and skills students need to master, and they appear across the different assessments students take to provide optimal exposure ...

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 ...

In order to lay a robust foundation for the Teacher-Led Learning Circles on Formative Assessments project, the project’s team of international researchers have conducted an extensive review of ...

At Boston College, formative education is at the heart of academic and co-curricular life. Through a wide array of programs, students, faculty, and staff are invited to engage deeply with questions of ...

An unprecedented venture in American higher education, the Department of Formative Education (DFE) is devoted to the interdisciplinary exploration of questions at once perennial and pressing: How do ...