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: -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: -Effective formative assessment involves collecting evidence about how student learning is progressing during the course of instruction so that necessary instructional adjustments can be made to close the gap between students’ current understanding and the desired goals.

Detailed explanation-4: -Purpose of Formative Evaluation: Its main objective is to provide continuous feedback to both teacher and student concerning learning successes and failures while instruction is in process. It is used to monitor the learning progress of students during the period of instruction.