Formative Assessment

Resource Category Topic
Effective student feedback: Creating and using comment banks (Webb, H.)
Using comment banks to provide students with better quality feedback while also reducing teacher workload.
Type: Article
 Assessment and Feedback, Teaching and Learning Strategies Feedback, Formative Assessment
Designing Better Quizzes?(Magna Publications/Faculty Focus).
Ideas for rethinking quiz practices.
Type: Report
 Assessment and Feedback Formative Assessment, Grading, Summative Assessment
Writing Good Multiple Choice Questions?(Center for Teaching, Vanderbilt University).
How to write good questions, including considerations for writing multiple choice items that test higher-order thinking.
Type: Website
 Assessment and Feedback Formative Assessment, Grading, Summative Assessment
Classroom Assessment Technique: Concept Maps (Western Washington University Center for Instructional Innovation and Assessment)
Using concept maps for classroom assessment.
Type: Video
 Assessment and Feedback Active Learning, Classroom/Learning Assessment, Cognitively Based Learning Interventions, Formative Assessment
Using Classroom Assessment Techniques (Carnegie Mellon University Eberly Center)
This overview includes examples of appropriate questions you can ask in the CAT format, examples of specific types of CATs, and strategies for…
Type: Website
 Assessment and Feedback Active Learning, Classroom/Learning Assessment, Formative Assessment
Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers (Angelo, T. A. and Cross, K. P.)
A guide to implementing techniques that embed formative assessment with active learning.
Type: Book
 Assessment and Feedback Active Learning, Classroom/Learning Assessment, Formative Assessment
Learning Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Faculty (Barkley, E. F., & Major, C. H.)
Provides 50 easy-to-implement active learning techniques that gauge student learning across academic disciplines and learning environments and embed…
Type: Book
 Assessment and Feedback Active Learning, Classroom/Learning Assessment, Formative Assessment
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) (Purdue University Repository for Online Teaching and Learning)
An introduction to UDL: What is it? Why is it Important? How to do it?
Type: Website
 Learning Environment, Student Success Formative Assessment, Summative Assessment
Formative assessment and self‐regulated learning: a model and seven principles of good feedback practice (Nicol, D.J. and Macfarlane‐Dick, D.)
The research on formative assessment and feedback is reinterpreted to show how these processes can help students take control of their own learning,…
 Assessment and Feedback Cognitively Based Learning Interventions, Feedback, Formative Assessment
Sharpening Our Focus on Learning: The Rise of Competency-Based Approaches to Degree Completion (National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment)
Unifying concepts shared by different competency-based education programs, current competency-based models, and the national policy context that…
Type: Report
 Assessment and Feedback Competency Based Assessment, Formative Assessment, Summative Assessment