Formative assessment is complex and has many variables.
Through this activity, it helped to broaden my awareness of how much time it
really takes to fully comprehend what formative assessment really entails. Formative
assessment has many parts. For me, when I would describe to a colleague what
the most salient features of formative assessment would be is to support
student learning. In order to support learning, this would require many steps.
There would have to be teacher/student interaction which would require various
activities such as pre questions to identify preconceptions and then post questions
to reflect on what the student has learned.
To play devil's advocate, if I was a colleague who was set in my ways, I would reply... I DO support learning! I give well-organized lectures, provide study guides, have help sessions, and give lots of interesting examples. So how would you explain the difference to them? I'm also wondering more specifically how you would explain to your colleague how the pre questions and post questions are an example of formative assessment.
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