CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -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-3: -Formative is a free online assessment tool that is very robust. Formative allows teachers to choose pre-made assessments and edit to fit their needs, create their own from scratch, or even upload a PDF or doc to create. They also offer some fantastic data that you can track and intervene when needed.

Detailed explanation-4: -Formative assessments capture learning-in-process in order to identify gaps, misunderstanding, and evolving understanding before summative assessments. Formative assessment may take a variety of forms, such as informal questions, practice quizzes, one-minute papers, and clearest/muddiest point exercises.