CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Ultimately, the goal of formative assessment is to guide students toward the development of their own “learning to learn” skills (also sometimes referred to as “metacognitive” strategies).

Detailed explanation-2: -Formative assessment builds students’ “learning to learn” skills by emphasising the process of teaching and learning, and involving students as partners in that process. It also builds students’ skills at peer-assessment and self-assessment, and helps them develop a range of effective learning strategies.

Detailed explanation-3: -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.

Detailed explanation-4: -Formative assessment involves continuously collecting and using evidence to move student learning forward. Rather than adding a bunch of new evidence collection strategies to your instructional practice, we find that the best way for teachers to elicit evidence during instruction is to start with what you do already.

Detailed explanation-5: -Formative evaluation is developmental, not judgemental in nature. Its purpose is to improve students learning and instruction. Therefore, its major function is feedback to the teacher and students to locate strengths and weaknesses in the teaching-learning process in order to improve it.