Category Archives: Formative Assessment Techniques

This assessment requires students to work together using whiteboards to solve problems together. The temporary aspect of a whiteboard helps students to be less afraid of making mistakes.

This assessment requires students to respond to a short survey about how well they think they understand a series of concepts. They also have to provide an explanation so the teacher knows how in-depth their understanding is.

This assessment requires students to give visual feedback to a teacher during instructional time based on how well they currently understand what is being taught.

This assessment requires students to reflect on their learning based on things they learned, things they are struggling with, and things they can use the next day.

This assessment requires students to debrief and think through what they have learned for two minutes after ten minutes of instructional time.

This assessment requires students to all be involved in classroom discussion; there is no room for someone to hide!

This assessment requires students to work in pairs to solve a problem, and then swap with another pair to analyze student work.

This assessment requires students to categorize concepts and find ways of relating information that they already know to solidify foundational topics.

This assessment requires students to visually organize their thoughts on a concept.

This assessment requires students to show visually and quickly their level of understanding on a concept being taught to a teacher during instruction.