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Rebecca Friesen; Adriana D. Cimetta – American Journal of Evaluation, 2025
Understanding what hinders or facilitates the implementation of change strengthens formative assessments. We propose a framework for interrogating the relational, political, discursive, and structural dimensions of power-shaping change efforts. In addition, we describe the application of this framework to a change initiative to better understand…
Descriptors: Change, Power Structure, Formative Evaluation, Barriers
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Suzanne Sullivan – BU Journal of Graduate Studies in Education, 2024
Formative assessment has become a focus of classroom teachers as a quick method to assess students' progress in their classrooms. For students to be prepared for summative assessments, it is important to separate the traditional forms of summative assessment from the everyday practice and feedback that is formative assessment. Mathematics teachers…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Educational Strategies, Mathematics Instruction, High School Teachers
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Barbara Jones; Molly Faulkner-Bond; Jennifer Blitz – Region 15 Comprehensive Center, 2024
This brief is the first in a series that highlights key features of high-quality instruction for English learners, and the role formative assessment plays in their success. Formative assessment supports teachers to enact these features by providing them with tools to gauge and react to student learning in real-time. These practices also support…
Descriptors: Acceleration (Education), Educational Quality, English Learners, Formative Evaluation
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Barbara Jones; Molly Faulkner-Bond; Jennifer Blitz; Patricia Garcia-Arena – Region 15 Comprehensive Center, 2024
This brief is part of a series that highlights key features of high-quality instruction for English learners and the role formative assessment plays in their success. Formative assessment supports teachers to enact these features by providing them with tools to gauge and react to student learning in real-time. These practices also support students…
Descriptors: English Learners, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Student Evaluation
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Barbara Jones; Molly Faulkner-Bond; Jennifer Blitz – Region 15 Comprehensive Center, 2024
This brief is part of a series that highlights key features of high-quality instruction for English learners and the role formative assessment plays in their success. Formative assessment supports teachers to enact these features by providing them with tools to gauge and react to student learning in real-time. These practices also support students…
Descriptors: English Learners, Academic Achievement, Student Attitudes, Ownership
Bruce D. Baker – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2025
This paper presents a comprehensive framework for evaluating and reforming education finance systems to ensure equity, adequacy, and equal opportunity in publicly funded education. We summarize decades conceptual work, explaining our evolving understanding of the role and purpose of school finance systems, leading to our current framing that the…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Finance Reform, Formative Evaluation, Educational Equity (Finance)
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Barbara Jones; Molly Faulkner-Bond; Jennifer Blitz – Region 15 Comprehensive Center, 2024
This brief is part of a series that highlights key features of high-quality instruction for English learners and the role formative assessment plays in their success. Formative assessment supports teachers to enact these features by providing them with tools to gauge and react to student learning in real-time. These practices also support students…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Formative Evaluation, English Learners, Second Language Instruction
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Jasmin Lundy; LeAnne Petherick – Strategies: A Journal for Physical and Sport Educators, 2025
Assessment in health and physical education (HPE) courses is necessary to guide teacher planning, inform students of their learning progress, and communicate student learning. However, teachers face many challenges in adapting quality assessment practices, and narratives emerging from students' post-participation in HPE indicate that students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, Physical Education, Health Education
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Mark White; Peter A. Edelsbrunner; Christian M. Thurn – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2024
Classroom observation rubrics are a widely adopted tool for measuring the quality of teaching and provide stable conceptualisations of teaching quality that facilitate empirical research. Here, we present four statistical approaches for analysing data from classroom observations: Factor analysis, Rasch modelling, latent class or profile analysis,…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Classroom Observation Techniques, Evaluation Methods, Scoring Rubrics
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Katerina Trcková; Roman Maršálek; Zuzana Václavíková – Journal of Chemical Education, 2024
The article describes a mini-escape game with an environmental theme. The game was prepared using LearningApps and Google Slides. The mini-escape game comprised 7 subactivities: Crossword, Matching Pairs, Multiple-Choice Quiz, Cloze Test, Word Grid, Group Assignment, and Freetext Input. Through completion of these subactivities, students gradually…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Computer Games, Science Instruction, Chemistry
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Catherine Nickerson; Peter Davidson – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2024
In this discussion, we consider how the use of scenario-based assessment (SBA) can provide students with a way of developing the digital communication skills that business communication research has found they will need for the workplace, alongside other aspects of professional competence. This is because SBA can be employed to engage learners in…
Descriptors: Vignettes, Student Evaluation, Digital Literacy, Skill Development
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Blair Lehman; Jesse R. Sparks; Diego Zapata-Rivera; Jonathan Steinberg; Carol Forsyth – Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 2024
Most assessments adopt a one-size-fits-all approach to provide fair testing opportunities to all learners. However, this rigid approach to assessment may limit the ability for some learners to show what they know and can do. The Caring Assessments framework proposed a guide for the design and development of flexible, personalized, and adaptive…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Evaluation Methods, Student Evaluation, Culturally Relevant Education
Region 12 Comprehensive Center, 2024
Research suggests that students who participate in formative assessment perform better on measures of academic achievement than students who do not. To raise school and systematic performance, teachers need access to high-quality, rigorous tools designed to provide timely and individualized feedback for student learning. According to a report…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Elementary Secondary Education, Statewide Planning, Measurement
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Becky Tugman; Lauren E. Stephens; Taimi Olsen; Alfred E. Bundrick – To Improve the Academy, 2025
Peer observation of teaching (PoT) is a recognized evaluation tool. However, faculty concerns persist regarding bias, beneficial feedback, and lack of peer observer training. While faculty desire to provide quality and equitable reviews, many higher education faculty peers have little expertise in conducting observations and evaluations. This…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Faculty Development, Formative Evaluation, Summative Evaluation
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Bonnie Lewis; Kathy Swan; Ryan M. Crowley – Social Education, 2024
Deliberation and inquiry can go hand-in-hand. Inquiry-based learning calls on teachers to facilitate student-led discovery, something that can only happen when students ask questions and weigh possible answers before settling on a plausible and evidentiary answer. Teaching through inquiry is about setting students up to wrestle with the issue at…
Descriptors: Inquiry, High School Students, Grade 11, United States History
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