Assessment is a critical aspect of higher education because it has a range of powerful
impacts on what staff and students do and how universities operate. Underpinned by …

Feedback is an integral part of education and there is a substantial body of trials exploring
and confirming its effect on learning. This evidence base comes mostly from studies of …

Formative assessment offers great promise as the next best hope for stimulating gains in
student achievement. In this chapter, the roots and nature of the concept are explored, and a …

The requirement to provide timely formative tasks that are designed to facilitate student
learning and autonomy has provoked a wider examination of the role of assessment in …

Formative assessment is the process by which teachers provide information to students
during the learning process to modify their understanding and self-regulation. An important …

Assessment plays a number of roles in modern societies, including the certification of
student achievement and holding educational institutions to account. over the past …

Your key to understanding how formative assessment improves learning! Using clear
explanations and poignant cases, this timely resource shows how formative assessment can …

This paper covers six interrelated issues in formative assessment (aka,'assessment for
learning'). The issues concern the definition of formative assessment, the claims commonly …

This chapter describes the variety of definitions and instantiations of what is called formative
assessment, and identifies the deficiencies in those conceptualizations. Formative …

The Handbook of Formative Assessment in the Disciplines meaningfully addresses current
developments in the field, offering a unique and timely focus on domain dependency …