EDUCATION (CBSE/UGC NET)

EDUCATION UGC NET

SCHOOL AND CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The purpose of formative evaluation is?
A
Monitoring progress of students
B
Decision of what to measure
C
Development of the test
D
Administering the test
Explanation: 

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: -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.

Detailed explanation-3: -Progress monitoring is a type of formative assessment in which student learning is evaluated on a regular basis to provide useful feedback about performance to both learners and teachers. It consists of frequently administered, brief measures (sometimes referred to as tests or probes).

Detailed explanation-4: -Progress monitoring using formative assessments identifies each student’s actual rates of learning with continuous feedback to guide instructional decisions and student mastery of grade-level standards.

Detailed explanation-5: -’Formative evaluation’ is a type of evaluation which refers to monitor the child’s progress throughout the teaching-learning process.

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