CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The goal of formative assessment is to monitor student learning to provide ongoing feedback that can be used by instructors to improve their teaching and by students to improve their learning. More specifically, formative assessments: help students identify their strengths and weaknesses and target areas that need work.

Detailed explanation-2: -Well-planned formative assessments can help students to stay engaged and motivated by making learning an ongoing process where each student is actively involved.

Detailed explanation-3: -In specifying success criteria, the teacher has begun to make use of formative assessment: they’ve anticipated what the outcome of their teaching is intended to be. They can follow up with actions such as questioning or end-of-topic tests to assess what the pupils have learned.

Detailed explanation-4: -Formative assessment provides corrective measures so learners can succeed using feedback (Wininger & Norman, 2005). Providing students with feedback on their work includes cues to support learning as well as recognizing discrepancies in task and goal performance (Wininger & Norman, 2005).