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ROLE
Formative
Assessment
Definition Learning
Goals
Formative assessment is a
Student Criteria for
planned, ongoing process Self-Assessment Success
used by all students and
teachers during learning
and teaching to elicit and
use evidence of student
learning to improve student Questioning
Collaborative
understanding of intended Strategies to Elicit
Culture of
10
disciplinary learning Evidence of
Learning
outcomes, and support Student Learning
students to become more Dimensions
self-directed learners.
of Formative
This definition was created Assessment
Tasks and
by the Council of Chief
Student Peer
Practice Activities that
State School Officers Elicit Evidence of
Feedback
(CCSSO) through the Student Learning
Formative Assessment for
Students and Teachers
Using
State Collaborative on
Evidence to
Assessment and Student Descriptive
Inform
Teacher
Standards (FAST SCASS). Ongoing
Feedback
Teaching and
Extended Learning
Thinking
During
Discourse
Assessment
the student role in a fully
implemented formative
assessment environment.
Using
Tasks and Evidence to
Questioning Activities to Inform
Learning
Strategies Elicit Ongoing
Goals
to Elicit Evidence of Teaching and
Teachers identify
Evidence of Learning Learning
“lesson-sized”
learning goals that
Criteria for Learning Teachers plan
should be clearly Success Teachers for tasks and
Teachers use
evidence to adjust
identified and Teachers clearly choreograph the activities that ongoing teaching
communicated to identify criteria classroom produce and learning and to
students and should that are aligned discussion and evidence of improve students'
help students make to learning build on student student learning achievement of
connections among goals and responses in (excluding intended
lessons within a communicated order to advance classroom instructional
larger sequence. to students. learning. discussions). outcomes.
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