1.1 Feedback should always be focused on helping students to develop their skills, knowledge and understanding, both subject-specific and transferable, and to identify areas for improvement.

There’s a war of sorts going on within the normally staid assessment industry, and it’s a war over the definition of a type of assessment that many educators understand in only the sketchiest fashion.

1 Department of Curriculum and Instruction, The Education University of Hong Kong, Tai Po, Hong Kong SAR, China 2 School of Materials and New Energy Xingzhi College, South China Normal University, ...

Diana Laurillard of the UCL Knowledge Lab outlines digital instruction methods that help with formative assessment, or assessment for learning, rather than summative assessment for grading. She gives ...

Students often report feeling anxious about assessments, and struggling to understand marking criteria, how to use their feedback, and how to do well. Improving assessment and feedback literacy ...

Carol Boston says “Black and Wiliam (1998b) define assessment broadly to include all activities that teachers and students undertake to get information that can be used diagnostically to alter ...

1 Department of Special Needs and Inclusive Education, Debre Tabor University, Debre Tabor, Ethiopia 2 Department of English Language and Literature, Debre Tabor University, Debre Tabor, Ethiopia ...