All 27 of these formative assessment strategies are simple to administer and free or inexpensive to use. They provide the teacher with the evidence of student learning needed to make lesson plan adjustments and keep learning on target and moving forward.

Like a chef needs to check a sauce for taste, teachers should check for understanding. These can be formal or informal, fast or slow, simple or complex.

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Could a standard set of rubrics be used to assess in-class student work for cross-cutting skills like writing, critical thinking, problem-solving and quantitative analysis?

26 Strategies

In the old days we compartmentalised.  First we planned our schemes of work
in folders that lived on shelves.  Then we taught our lessons.  Then we
marked our students’ books retrospectively writing comments like ‘good
work, keep it up’ or rhetoric questions like ‘where is you