Research on other techniques for formative assessment considering the multiple intelligences.

Prepare to share your findings in class.

Several short assessment techniques listed below can be used well for formative
assessment (that is, to check how your students understand the topics you just
taught). However, they can also be used as short measurements that will have some
weight attached and be part of the course grade.

Debates exemplify different ways of thinking about a problem and solving it. And
debates demonstrate higher order thinking and problem-solving skills.

Role-playing works well in history, literature, or biochemistry classes. Divide the class

into as many sections as you need to have for role playing.

Mini-Cases can be used as a start up for a lecture or placed in between topics to

change the tempo of longer lectures and help students better understand through a
specific example.

Formative quizzes are quizzes that are not graded. Use them to evaluate students’
understanding of a topic.

low-stakes Group work- activities and assignments that are intended to help students learn
but that allow for experimentation, mistakes, and failure, this will also check how your
students understand the topics you just taught but since it’s a group work, it can also
promote changing of ideas for getting wide range of understanding to the topic

is to provide students with an indication of their performance while taking a course and
give students an opportunity to improve their performance prior to receiving a final grade, either
on an assignment or in a course.