CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Informal assessment is most often used to provide formative feedback. As such, it tends to be less threatening and thus less stressful to learners. However, informal feedback is prone to high subjectivity or bias. Formal assessment is data driven.

Detailed explanation-2: -Informal formative assessment in the classroom takes place when a teacher elicits student thinking and makes immediate use of this knowledge in instruction.

Detailed explanation-3: -Formative Assessment can be as informal as observing the learner’s work or as formal as a written test. Formative Assessment is the most powerful type of assessment for improving student understanding and performance.

Detailed explanation-4: -Formative assessment is a planned, ongoing process used by all students and teachers during learning and teaching to elicit and use evidence of student learning to improve student understanding of intended disciplinary learning outcomes and support students to become self-directed learners.