Instructional designers perform informal formative evaluation in design practice. An evaluation may be used to locate errors in alignment of instructional objectives or to increase the quality or effectiveness of a design. An instructional design review is similar to peer reviews in higher education which are often structured, and tools are…

Assessment is a key element in the teaching-learning process in physical education (PE). In 2020, the Association Internationale des Écoles Supérieures d'Éducation Physique (AIESEP) published a position statement on PE assessment, in which it reviews the current state of the field and establishes the current yet forward-looking main lines of…

A design-based research study on the development of one-page tools to support systemic thinking in public managers is presented. Study participants included public managers of social and human service agencies within government or nonprofit organizations, as learners for whom the tools were designed; and instructional design professionals,…

Purpose: This study examined students' perspectives on teachers' written formative feedback on their writing assignments in an online learning setting. Design/methodology/approach: A qualitative approach was used to gain insights into the effect of individual written formative feedback on writing assignments from teachers in an online setting.…

Formative assessment is a type of low-stakes assessment that can help reduce student anxiety and encourage students to engage in the course regularly. Formative assessment can also help instructors identify knowledge gaps. Students who had completed the first semester of a two-semester sophomore-level anatomy and physiology sequence were surveyed…

Background/purpose: Formative assessment supports competency development and self-regulated learning in higher education, yet evidence on business administration students' perceptions (especially in Latin American contexts) remains limited. This study examined perceptions of formative assessment to identify improvement areas and inform pedagogy in…

Assessing the learning outcomes from professional learning is crucial for understanding its impact, especially for training focusing on capability development. This paper explores the benefits of using scenario-based assessments to assess the immediate capability learning outcomes in professional learning settings. Existing research underscores…

This study seeks to explore and understand the Bhutanese secondary school teacher's perception of increased Continuous Formative Assessment (CFA) weightings and the associated opportunities and challenges. Grounded on pragmatism, this study employed an explanatory sequential mixed methods design. The quantitative and qualitative data were…

This qualitative Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) explored the experiences of teachers who a) participated in a multiyear, multisite professional development (PD) program on formative assessment practices and who b) are identified by their supervising administrators as positive-outliers by virtue of their extraordinary improvement…

This article describes the Four-N-Framework for responding to readers through focused and intentional individualized dynamic formative feedback. Making ongoing informed data-driven instructional decisions and effective actionable feedback supports students' reading growth and fosters lifelong readers. This easy-to-implement process can support…

Both summative and formative assessments are known to facilitate student learning and understanding and help students to identify areas of weakness. However, few studies have investigated students' preference for either summative or formative evaluations, particularly in the area of preclinical medicine. The current study addresses this deficit by…

Assessment for learning (AfL) has been found to motivate students and promote their learning in the classroom. However, even though teachers are aware of the benefits relatively few teachers implement AfL in their teaching. So also the case for physical education (PE), where the curriculum underscores the importance of motivation for physical…

Noticing is an essential skill for all teachers of mathematics. Mathematics teacher educators have utilized a variety of tools to practice and develop preservice teachers' (PSTs') ability to notice, which we extend to include photographs and learning trajectories. This article explores PSTs' noticing skills by analyzing work samples from a methods…

Educational innovations, particularly those in online education and technology-enhanced learning, some accelerated by the recent pandemic, take centre stage in this journal. Examples include the resurgence of the flipped classroom methodology, supported by instructional technology, the utilization of formative assessment with technological…

Due to a rapidly transforming world, design education needs to adjust itself. To do so, it is essential to understand curriculum gaps in the discipline. This systematic review (n = 95) reports on these gaps and the future readiness of design curricula. The search strategy consisted of both a database search, and discipline-specific journal search…