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A table adapted from Student-Involved Assessment for Learning that gives a picture of how appropriate various assessment methods are for a variety of learning target types

A table illustrating the characteristics of various assessment tools on a continuum from more structured / de-contexualized to less structured / more contextualized.

School of the Future techniques for asking questions that promote student thinking and give you time to observe student understanding

The authors advocate for strategies that shift assessment from quality control to quality assurance.

What would happen if the roles were flipped and students asked the questions?  Dan Rothstein and Luz Santana document a step-by-step process to help students formulate and prioritize questions about nearly everything.

Thirteen examples of how teachers have made feedback (as opposed to advice and evaluation) more central to their work with students.

To improve formative assessment practices among both teachers and assessment designers, we need to look more closely at just what feedback is-and isn't.

The formative assessment process guides teachers in making decisions about future instruction. Here are a few examples that may be used in the classroom during the formative assessment process to collect evidence of student learning.