Sound Off!: Learning from Finland: Formative Assessment

2012 ◽  
Vol 105 (7) ◽  
pp. 488-489 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katie A. Hendrickson
Keyword(s):  
Formative Assessment ◽  
Standardized Testing ◽  
Teacher Feedback ◽  
Assessment Practices ◽  
Self Evaluation

This article examines the use of formative assessment practices in Finland classrooms, including intervention, teacher feedback, and student self-evaluation, and explores connections between standardized testing and formative assessment.

scholarly journals DIGITAL TEACHER FEEDBACK AS A TRANSLATION ASSESSMENT TOOL

2022 ◽  
pp. 575
Author(s):  
Tetiana Korol
Keyword(s):  
Formative Assessment ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Teacher Feedback ◽  
Assessment Practices ◽  
Sensory Channel ◽  
University Level ◽  
Feedback Modalities ◽  
Feedback Delivery ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Competency Level

This paper analyses the opportunities of digital feedback delivery, its use in the translation classroom, and its application as the tool of active instruction and formative assessment at university level. A mixed research design involved 33 third-year students of Poltava University of Economics and Trade majoring in Translation. They participated in the study voluntarily in the spring term of 2019/2020 academic year. The effectiveness of the digital teacher feedback of different modality was estimated with the help of a questionnaire from two perspectives: students’ behavioral engagement associated with feedback convenience in use for translation revisions and their affective engagement concerning emotional saturation of the suggested type of digital feedback. Students’ preferences were collated with their results in leading sensory channel test and acquired translation competency level. According to the received data, overwhelming 69.7% of undergraduate translators appeared to be digitals as per their leading sensory channel, which had no statistically significant impact on the preferred feedback modality inversely to students’ translation competency level. The observed correlation proved the viability of both suggested digital feedback modalities at different stages of the training process. It was concluded that digital teacher feedback promotes the development of the students’ translation skills in particular and leverages formative assessment practices in the translation classroom in general.

Methods and Strategies: Formative Assessment Practices to Support Students who Struggle in Science

2017 ◽  
Vol 055 (02) ◽  
Author(s):  
Audrey Martinez-Gudapakkam ◽  
Karen Mutch-Jones ◽  
Jennifer Hicks
Keyword(s):  
Formative Assessment ◽  
Assessment Practices ◽  
Support Students

scholarly journals Changes in Student Motivation and Teacher Decision Making When Implementing a Formative Assessment Practice

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gunilla Näsström ◽  
Catarina Andersson ◽  
Carina Granberg ◽  
Torulf Palm ◽  
Björn Palmberg
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Formative Assessment ◽  
Classroom Practice ◽  
Teaching Practices ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Behavioral Engagement ◽  
Assessment Practices ◽  
Traditional Teaching ◽  
Assessment Practice ◽  
Knowledge And Skills

Motivation is a prerequisite for students’ learning, and formative assessment has been suggested as a possible way of supporting students’ motivation. However, there is a lack of empirical evidence corroborating the hypothesis of large effects from formative assessment interventions on students’ autonomous forms of motivation and motivation in terms of behavioral engagement in learning activities. In addition, formative assessment practices that do have an impact on students’ motivation may put additional requirements on teachers than more traditional teaching practices. Such requirements include decisions teachers need to make in classroom practice. The requirements on teachers’ decision-making in formative assessment practices that have a positive impact on students’ autonomous forms of motivation and behavioral engagement have not been investigated. This study describes one teacher’s formative assessment practice during a sociology course in upper secondary school, and it identifies the requirements for the teacher’s decision-making. The teacher had participated in a professional development program about formative assessment just prior to this study. This study also investigated changes in the students’ motivation when the teacher implemented the formative assessment practice. The teacher’s practice was examined through observations, weekly teacher logs, the teacher’s teaching descriptions, and an interview with the teacher. Data on changes in the students’ type of motivation and engagement were collected in the teacher’s class and in five comparison classes through a questionnaire administered in the beginning and the end of the course. The students responded to the questionnaire items by choosing the extent to which they agreed with the statements on a scale from 1–7. The teacher’s formative assessment practice focused on collecting information about the students’ knowledge and skills and then using this information to make decisions about subsequent instruction. Several types of decisions, and the knowledge and skills required to make them that exceed those required in more traditional teaching practices, were identified. The students’ in the intervention teacher’s class increased their controlled and autonomous forms of motivation as well as their engagement in learning activities more than the students in the comparison classes.

scholarly journals Impact of Formative Assessment Practices on Student Motivation for Learning the English Language

2022 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-41
Author(s):  
Anita Muho ◽  
Gentjana Taraj
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Formative Assessment ◽  
Student Motivation ◽  
English Language ◽  
Peer Assessment ◽  
Assessment Practices ◽  
School Students ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Motivation For Learning ◽  
The Impact

This study aimed at exploring the impact of formative assessment practices on student motivation for learning the English language. As Leahy, Lyon, Thompson, and Wiliam (2005) stated, education needs to change its function from collecting the results of right or wrong, and to encourage teachers in gathering information that will affect the educational decisions. This study is a non-experimental, correlational study, to describe the relationship between formative assessment practices and motivation for leaning. The instrument used was a questionnaire on high school students from public and private schools, who were selected randomly by stratified sampling. They belonged to three major high schools of Durres, Albania. The findings of this study showed that factors like strategic questions used by the teacher during formative assessment, student’s portfolio, self-assessment, and peer assessment affected positively the motivation for learning the English language. The results of the regression equation revealed that from four independent variables, the factor that had the greatest impact on motivation for learning were strategic questions used by the teacher during formative assessment, followed by self-assessment, peer assessment and student’s portfolio. This study identified ways of intervention to promote motivation for learning the English language. The study will contribute in the Albanian context showing how assessment practices made an impact on student motivation. It will help educational institutions and policy makers, foreign language teachers in improving the assessment practices to promote student motivation in learning the English language.

The Integration of Educational Technology for Classroom-Based Formative Assessment to Empower Teaching and Learning

2018 ◽  
pp. 321-341
Author(s):  
Asli Lidice Gokturk Saglam
Keyword(s):  
Educational Technology ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Formative Assessment ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Teacher Assessment ◽  
Assessment Practices ◽  
Web 2.0 Tools ◽  
Classroom Activities ◽  
The Face ◽  
Everyday Classroom

As educational technology continues to change the face of educational contexts in the digital age, the way in which teachers can incorporate various existing online resources and applications within their everyday classroom activities deserves closer attention. In particular, it is important to explore how interactive Web 2.0 tools might be integrated into classroom-based assessment practices. This way, the efficacy of online tools and their ability to both facilitate teacher assessment practices and empower student learning can be adequately assessed. This chapter aims to explore, showcase and discuss how Web 2.0 tools can be integrated into teachers' classroom-based language assessment to get information that can be used diagnostically to adjust teaching and learning with reference to current literature, explore challenges and focus on suggestions and avenues for further research. Furthermore, examples of web tools that could be used for formative assessment will be briefly enlisted.

Technology-Assisted Formative Assessment

2015 ◽  
pp. 380-398 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen E. Irving
Keyword(s):  
Formative Assessment ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Formative Feedback ◽  
First Century ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Just In Time ◽  
Assessment Practices ◽  
Present Information ◽  
Electronic Technologies ◽  
Share Information

Reliable just-in-time assessments are the foundation of informed teaching and learning. Modern electronic technologies assist in the formative assessment process by supporting classroom environments that allow students and teachers to assess learning and providing mechanisms to present information about student learning during instructional sequences. To implement formative assessment practices, students and teachers benefit from rich educational tasks that invite students to share information about their understanding of the lesson while the lesson is occurring in order to nurture productive learning by both teacher and student. Formative feedback is facilitated by technologies such as connected classrooms, videography, online formative quizzes, and manuscript multi-draft editing. Technology-assisted formative assessment represents a powerful option to promote improved classroom communications that support formative assessment practices for teachers in twenty-first century classrooms.

Teachers' self-efficacy and formative assessment of students: Moderating role of school goal structure

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (6) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Xiaoqing Xiang ◽  
Sichang Yum ◽  
Rong Lian
Keyword(s):  
Formative Assessment ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Moderating Effect ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Assessment Practices ◽  
Goal Structure ◽  
Primary School Teachers ◽  
Mastery Goal ◽  
The Relationship

Although the importance of formative assessment of student progress has been well covered in previous studies, implementing formative assessment in the classroom requires targeted tools and educational policies. Therefore, we examined the factors that affect teachers' use of formative assessment practices and analyzed the moderating effect of the school's mastery goal structure in the relationship between teachers' self-efficacy and their use of formative assessment practices. Participants were 507 Chinese primary school teachers, who completed a survey. Structural equation modeling results reveal that teachers' selfefficacy regarding formative assessment and perception of a school mastery goal structure each positively predicted the use of formative assessment practices. The moderating effect of the school mastery goal structure in the relationship between teachers' self-efficacy and their use of formative assessment practices was also statistically significant. Our findings have implications for policy making and practice as well as for further studies regarding formative assessment of students.

Formative Assessment in a Teacher Education Course

2020 ◽  
pp. 71-88
Author(s):  
Kerryn Dixon
Keyword(s):  
Critical Pedagogy ◽  
Formative Assessment ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Critical Literacy ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Teacher Educator ◽  
Assessment Practices ◽  
Literacy Teachers ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Support Students

Although many teachers are sympathetic to critical literacy's social justice agenda, they are often unsure about how to implement it in their classrooms. This is particularly so in contexts where increased accountability requires standardized forms of assessment. The challenge for teacher educators is to find ways to support student teachers and teachers who are new to critical literacy. The chapter focuses on how postgraduate students new to critical literacy learn to use this approach with young children. The chapter explicates the ways in which formative assessment is practiced as part of a critical pedagogy to support students' understandings of critical literacy, it describes how low-risk opportunities to put critical literacy into practice are provided, furthermore it considers the ways in which dialogue works to support inexperienced critical literacy teachers and finally examines the benefits of formative assessment practices within a critical pedagogy from a teacher educator perspective.

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