Formative Assessment

Group project module 7

Formative Assessment
Formative Assessments are evaluations teachers conduct during the learning process.
The outcome of this evaluations is then used to adjust teaching and learning
strategies. The result is that students get better results in attaining the learning goals,
because they are constantly monitored so if something goes wrong the teacher can
take action in a timely matter.
Use in the classroom
Subject: Geography

Grade level: 8th Grade

Topic: Topography of South America

lesson
By the end of the lesson students can name the Andes
countries,their capitals and other landmarks.

Assessment:

Show a map and let students point the countries.

Create 2 groups, students in group 1 represent the countries

and in group 2 their capitals. Let them form pairs and tell
their story.
How ICTs can enhance effectiveness or efficiency
Google forms

A quiz created in Google forms. The individual results are

stored in a Google sheet. This gives the teacher an overview
of topics that the student has mastered or still needs help
with. The teacher also has the option to mail the students
their results and feedback. With some plugins you can also
autograde and create personalized feedback.

Sample assessment made with Google forms

Resources 1
Formative assessment
presentation on Slideshare This slideshow is packed with information about
the concepts of formative assessment,
contemporary practices in formative assessment,
applying formative assessment in your own
classroom and how to recognize the effects (how
are the students behaving, body language etc.)
Resources 2
Formative Assessment
Strategies Utilizing Technology
This presentation demonstrates how to use
technology for Formative Assessment.

E.g. Student Response Systems,Feedback tools,

Tools to capture students thinking
Resources 3
On this website formative and
Formatieve versus summative assessment are compared.
summatieve toetsing
The essence is for teachers to
learn from assessments.
Resources 4
Here we can read about why we do
assessments. They also talk about
Toetsing summative and formative assessment,
formal and informal assessment and
product and process assessment.

Theres also a link to a site where

you can learn to create
assessments.
Resources 5
The key feature is that teacher
finds a way of helping the student
to be active in the classroom and
Principles of Formative helping the student speak out and
express their ideas. Until then the
Assessment teacher doesnt know what is
needed.

A statement made in this video

about the Principles of Formative
assessment.
Resources 6
56 Examples of A slideshow that gives us 56
Formative Assessment examples of formative assessment.
So much inspiration from Edutopia!
Resources 7
An interesting way of assessment. I
Guided groups like how they upgrade from one
Formative Assessment group to another.

Video from the Teaching Channel.

Resources 8
A webinar with Dr. Dylan Wiliam,
author of the book Embedding
Embedding Formative Formative Assessment: Practical
Techniques for K12 Classrooms.
Assessment
A PDF from the slides.

Learned a lot from this!

Resources 9
In this blogpost Monica Burns talks
Empowering Teachers With
about Choosing the Right Tool,
Tech-Friendly Formative Gathering Formative Assessment Data
and Planning With a Purpose when it
Assessment Tools comes to using technology for
Formative Assessment
Resources 10
This video is about using formative
assessment as a way to personalize
De toets als momentopname om
student learning.
beter te kunnen sturen
How will we know it works
It is important to adapt the assessment to the learning
goals; to embed the assessment in the lesson. After the
assessment the teacher will look at the results. These
results gives the teacher the information she needs on
students performance.

If the assessment is not connected to the learning goals the

teachers get a wrong impression.

She knows the students, the way they behave in class and
what to expect from them.
How will we know it works
After the assessment the teacher will look at the results.
These results give the teacher the information she needs on
students performance. With this information she can now
evaluate.

What is the reason of the results Was it too difficult, were

the students engaged

What can I do to change the results? (Adjust the lesson, the

teaching strategy
How will we know it works
Since the teacher has made adjustment the students might be
more engaged or have better understanding of the matter
which will have a better result as the outcome.
Group members
Esther Boldewijn

Kimberley Tjon Poen Gie

Afanaisa Gallant

John van der Zijden