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https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1nzhdnyMQmio5lNT75ITB45rHyLISHEEHZlHTWJRqLmQ/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000&slide=id.p This is a great presentation that I use to find formative assessments! It is broken down by student work, self-reporting strategies, technology, post-assessment, teacher observations, and self assessments. Hope it helps!

I love quick online quizzes through Edmodo and/or websites like Quia. They are quick to do and are self-grading. This provides me instant, usable feedback.

It's a well known term 'formative assessment' among the teachers now as the importance of the same is getting accepted within the teaching world. The main idea behind the practice sessions of different formative assessments is to understand and identify which students need more care from the rest of the group. Once such students are being identified, it helps the teachers to move accordingly to give more exposure to those students by coming up with a mastered lesson plans and other instructions to help them understand the class better. It's a proven tactic and result oriented too. I have tried to list out some of the best formative assessment techniques to be used within the class for you and hence covered various online sources. 

I hope this given source with some effective formative assessment ideas with detailed explanation could bring some help for you: https://www.nwea.org/blog/2013/22-easy-formative-assessment-techniques-for-measuring-student-learning/

I have my own experiences dealing with students and planning class sessions to match the overall studying level of the kids and provide something effective for them. Currently I do work for a resume writing help service, where I could manage to help job candidates with various types of queries and giving solution to sort out them all. The process is same here as well; to help by understanding the issues as much as we can. I wish all the very best with your efforts and I'm sure you are going to be implemented this with influential results.

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James Kyne

Another great resource are the Page Keeley books.  Her 75 Practical Strategies for Science Formative Assessment and Uncovering Student Ideas in Science series are awesome. http://www.uncoveringstudentideas.org 

I've seen great success with online games such as kahoot. In one of my field experience assignments the teacher used the program and her students were all very enthusiastic to answer questions because it is structured as a game with a reward system. So I'd certainly recommend it.

I would recommend checking out this book! I read it for one of my graduate classes and it provided great insight into formative assessments!

A great resource for formative assessment is Dylan Wiliam. I am currently reading his book Embedded Formative Assessment

Has anyone out there ever used summative assessments as formative assessments?

For example, I have seen a few teachers--especially at the college level--who have a 'redemption point' or 'redemption test' system in which students who miss questions on a summative exam (e.g. unit test) are given a chance to make up the points on a targeted repeat exam or on the final. The questions are similar, but not identical, to the ones they missed the first time. There is often a 25% or 50% 'redemption tax' so that students can only win back 50-75% of the points they missed. Nonetheless, if students get the redemption questions right, it can improve their test grade substantially. For many students, this may be enough incentive to take another look at the material.

The redemption point system provides the students with an opportunity to learn from their mistakes and to re-assess their own understanding. Although students will likely have to to re-learn the material on their own, learning independently is a very important skill. Furthermore, the teacher can direct the students towards appropriate resources; online resources, including downloadable or printable ones for those without internet access, are ubiquitous.

I'm mostly seeing this done at the college level:

http://math.arizona.edu/~cpatterson/m223redemption.html

http://python.rice.edu/~chem151/Exams/Examindex.html

Has anyone tried this at the high school or middle school level? And if so, how did it go? Did it seem to work? Did students take advantage of it?

There are countless options for formal assessments. Some of my favorites are:

• Plickers- an awesome way to ask students questions, have them respond by flipping their card a certain way, you scanning it, and it going straight to the computer to generate a poll. Such an easy way to see what needs to be retaught and what is known.


• Near pod- this is an awesome way to give students an interactive PowerPoint that includes videos, quizzes, doodles, and polls. I used this for one of my science experiments, where they had to draw what happened and then draw what they thought was going to happen next. At the end, you can include questions to see what they learned. It will be generated in a table for you to see and who got what wrong. This won't be exposed to the children.


• Wifitti- students can text in the answer anonymously. You can get a general idea if the students are getting it or not.


• Traffic lights- students will have different color cards on their desk to flip to a color when learning. Red means I don't know. Yellow means I think I know. Green means I know this. This will give a great visual for the teacher to see who is struggling/getting it.