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: -In short, formative assessment occurs throughout a class or course, and seeks to improve student achievement of learning objectives through approaches that can support specific student needs (Theal and Franklin, 2010, p. 151).

Detailed explanation-3: -Formative assessment occurs when teachers feed information back to students in ways that enable the student to learn better, or when students can engage in a similar, self-reflective process. The evidence shows that high quality formative assessment does have a powerful impact on student learning.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.

Detailed explanation-5: -Formative assessments are frequent, daily or weekly, learning checks that guide both the teacher and the student on two areas: where the student has achieved mastery and where the student needs additional support.