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Formative assessment refers to a wide variety of methods that teachers use to conduct in-process evaluations of student comprehension, learning needs, and academic progress during a lesson, unit, or course. Formative assessments help teachers identify concepts that students are struggling to understand, skills they are having difficulty acquiring, or learning standards they have not yet …

#TDReflex14 - Week One Finding a Voice (April 28 - May 4) Welcome to week one of our 'uncourse', Teach Different - The Reflexion Programme 2014 (known on-line as #TDReflex14). Here's Lou saying hello on a screencast. What's it all about? At this point you might be wondering what on earth an 'uncourse' is, and how you will engage with it! The idea is that the community is the curriculum. The primary goal, rather than being about a particular topic, is to participate with people in our field. You'll need to forget all those traditional 'teachery' ideas about learning outcomes, start and finish times, progression routes, assessment - just find a space that you are comfortable with, and join in! It is all based around the concept of rhizomatic learning - as defined here:

create a range of quizzes as formative assessment activity. Watch the You Tube video giving an overview of Socrative.

This is written for HE tutors, but lots of this is relevant to teachers in FE too

some interesting ideas and links relating to marking, grading and giving feedback on assignments.

some interesting ideas and links relating to marking, grading and giving feedback on assignments.

Poll Everywhere allows you to ask a question and students to respond via text message or twitter. Here's a quick how to guide.

Poll Everywhere allows you to ask a question and students to respond via text message or twitter. Here's a quick how to guide.