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 ...
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 ...
Many educators have never heard of formative assessment or aren’t easily convinced that self- and peer-assessment strategies have a place in higher education. Instructional designers have a unique ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
RALEIGH, NC, Sept. 09, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- VitalSource®, a leading education technology solutions provider, announced its learning scientists have published a research paper, Scaling the Doer ...
A clear case has been made in the literature regarding the role of the learner in formative evaluation of instructional materials. In contrast, research on the role of the expert has been limited.
Image a world in which high-schoolers had to examine both sides of a dispute, argue each with equal compassion and listen for understanding.
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