Formative assessment PowerPoint - WHHS PD & SAS Homepage ...

Wordy and mushy!! Again, formative assessment is not a test but a process—aplanned process involving a number of different activities. One of those activities is the use of assessments, bothformal and informal, to elicit evidence regardingstudents' status: the degree to which a particular studenthas mastered a particular skill or body of knowledge. Based on this evidence, teachers adjust their ongoinginstructional activities or students adjust the proceduresthey're currently using to try to learn whatever they'retrying to learn.