Formative+Assessment

Information for this topic has been taken from the following text "Unlocking Formative Assessment" See reference.

Formative Assessment is usually considered to consist of the following:

clarifying learning intentions at the planning stage, as a condition for formative assessment to take place in the classroom. sharing learning intentions at beginnings of lessons involving children in self-evaluation against learning intentions focusing oral and written feedback around the learning intentions of lessons and tasks organising individual target setting so that children's achievement is based on previous achievement as well as aiming for the next level up appropriate questioning raising children's self-esteem via the language of the classroom and the ways in which achievement is celebrated.