Episode 48 Formative Assessment with Emeritus Professor Dylan William

 

• Formative assessment is important because it helps teachers to find out what their students have learned and make adjustments to their teaching accordingly.
• Formative assessment can be used to help students become lifelong learners by teaching them how to assess their own work and identify areas where they need to improve.
• There are five key strategies of formative assessment: clarifying learning intentions and success criteria, finding out what students have learned, giving feedback, peer tutoring, and activating students as owners of their own learning.
• The goal of formative assessment is to help students become independent learners who can take control of their own learning.
• Teachers should start by choosing one formative assessment strategy to focus on and work on it until it becomes a habit.
• It is important for teachers to be patient and not try to implement too many new strategies at once.

Here are some additional points that were made in the transcript:

• Formative assessment is more effective than summative assessment (which is used to measure student learning at the end of a unit or course) at improving student learning.
• Peer tutoring and self-assessment can be effective ways to help students become independent learners.
• Teachers should use formative assessment to provide students with feedback that is specific, actionable, and timely.
• Formative assessment should be an ongoing process that is embedded in the teaching and learning process.