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Fresko, Barbara; Levy-Feldman, Irit – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2023
Teacher evaluation has evolved from a task used for administrative decisions to an activity whose main goal is the enhancement of student learning and well-being through the improvement of instruction. The actual implementation of teacher evaluation by school principals will determine greatly the extent to which it can achieve this goal. An…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Teacher Evaluation, Program Implementation
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Wilson, Joshua; Myers, Matthew C.; Potter, Andrew – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2022
We investigated the promise of a novel approach to formative writing assessment at scale that involved an automated writing evaluation (AWE) system called MI Write. Specifically, we investigated elementary teachers' perceptions and implementation of MI Write and changes in students' writing performance in three genres from Fall to Spring…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Formative Evaluation, Automation, Elementary School Teachers
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Pinger, Petra; Rakoczy, Katrin; Besser, Michael; Klieme, Eckhard – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2018
The aim of this study was to contribute to the understanding of the effectiveness of formative assessment interventions by analysing how the "quality of programme delivery" affects students' mathematics achievement and interest. Teachers (n = 17) implemented formative assessment in their ninth-grade mathematics classes and provided their…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Formative Evaluation, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Achievement
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Ratnam-Lim, Christina Tong Li; Tan, Kelvin Heng Kiat – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2015
Singapore's education system has often been characterised as exam-oriented. This paper describes efforts ("windmills") made by the Government to constructively respond to the "winds of change" in the education system. A committee called the Primary Education Review and Implementation (PERI) Committee was appointed to study and…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Program Implementation, Foreign Countries, Holistic Approach
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Hondrich, Annika Lena; Hertel, Silke; Adl-Amini, Katja; Klieme, Eckhard – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2016
The implementation of formative assessment strategies is challenging for teachers. We evaluated teachers' implementation fidelity of a curriculum-embedded formative assessment programme for primary school science education, investigating both material-supported, direct application and subsequent transfer. Furthermore, the relationship between…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Formative Evaluation, Program Implementation, Fidelity
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Wylie, E. Caroline; Lyon, Christine J. – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2015
The paper examines the breadth and quality of formative assessment implementation of 202 mathematics and science teachers who participated in a two-year, school-based professional development programme that focused on formative assessment. Results are triangulated using three sources of data: baseline and end-of-Year 2 data from an annual survey,…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Program Implementation, Fidelity, Educational Quality
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Jonsson, Anders; Lundahl, Christian; Holmgren, Anders – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2015
This study reports on a large-scale implementation of Assessment for Learning (AfL) in a Swedish municipality. The implementation was founded on two principles: (1) teaching should be informed by educational research; (2) to be successful teachers' professional development needs to be based in everyday classroom practice. From these principles,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Implementation, Educational Research, Instructional Innovation
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Berry, Rita – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2011
Hong Kong is traditionally an examination-oriented culture, a legacy of its Confucian heritage. Since the 1990s, the Hong Kong government has shown its determination to make a change to this deep-rooted examination-oriented culture with assessment for learning highlighted as an important aspect in the reform agenda. Although many initiatives have…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Formative Evaluation, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
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Carless, David – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2007
This paper seeks to unpack some dimensions of formative assessment not yet fully articulated in the existing literature. It introduces the term, pre-emptive formative assessment to denote teacher actions which attempt to clarify student understandings before misconceptions have resulted in ineffective learning outcomes and/or loss of marks in…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Formative Evaluation, Case Studies, Program Implementation