Teachers can use these questions to draw students out and get worthwhile formative assessment responses to guide instruction.

Teachers can support inquiry-based learning by using direct instruction to provide students with the tools they need to ...

Before students can appreciate that a heart valve is a masterpiece of engineering or notice what isn’t narrated in The Great Gatsby, they need sustained focus. Unfortunately, sustained attention is ...

Teachers hear these frustrating words often, and while we may have been tempted in recent years to blame technology use and increasingly short attention spans, these familiar complaints usually signal ...

Abstract: This full research paper uses sequential explanatory mixed-method design to explore and understand the reasons and motivations behind students' decisions to participate or not participate in ...

Rubrics have become a staple in the assessment strategies toolbox that teachers use in classrooms around the world. Rubrics feature in pre-kindergarten programs through university graduate programs ...

Inspired by librarian Liana Etling’s student-designed “Adopt-a-Shelves” (have you seen them yet?), we’d love to see your libraries! Show us your classroom or school library—cozy corners, student ...

For decades, formative assessment has been a silent engine for learning—powering insights about student progress and worker readiness. But let’s be honest, in a world where technology is evolving ...

More than 10 years ago, when I was a student teacher, a mentor teacher said something I’ll never forget: “Students don’t always learn because of us—they learn in spite of us.” At the time, I took it ...

Formative assessment plays a central role in effective teaching. It is not something done at the end of instruction, but rather a continuous process woven into the learning itself. As Bell and Cowie ...

In workshops on formative assessment, I ask people to think about a “best learning” experience from their life – regardless of whether it occurred as part of traditional schooling or in a different ...

In the corporate world, few rituals are as universally dreaded as the mandatory compliance training. It is often a passive, click-next-until-it’s-over exercise designed to generate a certificate ...