Formative Assessment: Improving Teaching and Learning

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Formative Assessment Improving Teaching and
Learning
Margaret Heritage
The 2007 CRESST Conference Los Angeles, CA -
January 22-23, 2007
UCLA Graduate School of Education Information
StudiesNational Center for Research on
Evaluation,Standards, and Student Testing
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Overview

• What is Formative Assessment?
• Operationalizing Formative Assessment in the
  Classroom

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What is Formative Assessment?
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What is Formative Assessment?

• An Ongoing Process To
• Evoke evidence about student learning
• Provide feedback about learning to teachers and
  to students
• Close the gap between the learners current state
  and desired goals

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Operationalizing Formative Assessment in the
Classroom
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The Feedback Loop
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The Feedback Loop
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The Feedback Loop
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The Feedback Loop
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The Feedback Loop
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The Feedback Loop
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The Feedback Loop
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The Feedback Loop
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The Feedback Loop
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The task of improving formative assessment is
substantially, if not mainly, about teacher
professional development. Wiliam, 2006
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