Development of Formative Assessment tool

The author describes his journey towards the continuous use of formative assessments in his instruction and how it improved student learning. He then goes on to describe a tool he and univer... See More

The author describes his journey towards the continuous use of formative assessments in his instruction and how it improved student learning. He then goes on to describe a tool he and university researchers devised based on his active research that can be used by any high school teacher in a physical or life science (unfortunately it does not include earth science except where it overlaps the above, and it was designed for high school specifically). However, for teachers at a variety of levels, they have broken down a number of learning topics and specified ways students misunderstand those topics and some of these are transferable to at least middle school and definitely undergraduate. Actually, a very clever and useful resource for those who it applies to!