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Bottom line:  Everything can be a type of formative assessment.  Students should be given the opportunity to learn from their mistakes and grow in their learning on a daily basis.  Mistakes are the basis of how we learn and grow as contributing members of society.   They should be given time to make corrections and teachers should be using all assessment data (formative or not) to aide in their instruction.  Katie M. 

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Bottom line:  Everything can be a type of formative assessment.  Students should be given the opportunity to learn from their mistakes and grow in their learning on a daily basis.  Mistakes are the basis of how we learn and grow as contributing members of society.   They should be given time to make corrections and teachers should be using all assessment data (formative or not) to aide in their instruction.  Katie M. 

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Feedback is the most important.  If there is no feedback there is no instructional value.  Without feedback students do not learn as well. Tracie S. 

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Feedback is the most important.  If there is no feedback there is no instructional value.  Without feedback students do not learn as well. Tracie S. 

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Formative Assessment Take Aways

- Kids can learn without grades! Descriptive feedback is so much more important than a number or letter written at the top. I wish society would recognize this - it is so sad that our little friends are already always asking their teacher "Is that an A?" when they should be asking themselves "did I do my best work?" and "how can I make it better?"

-Most of the time is spent developing summative assessments, when the greater value really comes from formative assessments and the feedback provided by those assessments.

-formative assessment should be ongoing - interesting that as a CSI team we identified "uses assessment to inform instruction" as a weaker point of evaluations in our school after looking at data from last year. It should always be occurring and used to shape our instructional decisions during and after lessons.
T. Smith

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Formative assessments allow students to gain positive feedback that will allow them to know they are doing a good job or allow them to understand what they can change in order to  make something better.  Grades are not always necessary and could be harmful  to some students' drive to want to complete work.  Lindi H. 

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Formative assessments allow students to gain positive feedback that will allow them to know they are doing a good job or allow them to understand what they can change in order to  make something better.  Grades are not always necessary and could be harmful  to some students' drive to want to complete work.  Lindi H. 

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The best formative assessment includes descriptive feedback. This can provide opportunities to positively reinforce behaviors related to effort which can help students across subject areas. Descriptive feedback can also help to convey expectations and progress towards goals and objectives. 

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The best formative assessment includes descriptive feedback. This can provide opportunities to positively reinforce behaviors related to effort which can help students across subject areas. Descriptive feedback can also help to convey expectations and progress towards goals and objectives. 

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Kristin Goodwin

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The best kind of feedback from formative assessments is descriptive feedback. Stepping back from the lesson and identifying the learning goals, where the students are in relation to the learning goal and what are you going to do to close the gap between where the students are and how to achieve the learning goal. Beth Wagner

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The best kind of feedback from formative assessments is descriptive feedback. Stepping back from the lesson and identifying the learning goals, where the students are in relation to the learning goal and what are you going to do to close the gap between where the students are and how to achieve the learning goal. Beth Wagner

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Formative assessments are meant to be ongoing...a way for teachers to gauge student learning.  Formatives without feedback is just a waste of time for both teachers and students.  Students need specific, and immediate feedback to be successful.  Teachers need to use information gained from formative assessments to develop and modify instruction based on student needs.

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Formative assessments are meant to be ongoing...a way for teachers to gauge student learning.  Formatives without feedback is just a waste of time for both teachers and students.  Students need specific, and immediate feedback to be successful.  Teachers need to use information gained from formative assessments to develop and modify instruction based on student needs.

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SSouders

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Formative assessment is more productive for both students and teachers than is summative assessment, particularly when teachers employ specific feedback that students can learn or relearn from, thereby increasing knowledge and skills about and with a standard.

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Formative assessment is more productive for both students and teachers than is summative assessment, particularly when teachers employ specific feedback that students can learn or relearn from, thereby increasing knowledge and skills about and with a standard.

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Sara West

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"Can kids learn with out grades? Yeah.  Can they learn without assessment and the feedback that comes with it? Not at all."

The formative assessments, with through and specific feedback (not just "Good Job.") are the pieces that help students grow and know what areas they need to improve upon.

-Jenn Lungociu

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To foster student learning more time needs to be spent on formative assessments than on summative assessments.  Currently, the opposite is often the case. When summative assessments are used, teachers need to be willing to use the experience as a formative assessment to provide quality feedback to students.

- Aaron Miller

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Formative Assessments continue growth and learning.  Ongoing checkpoints have a greater impact on student achievement. It also allows for purposeful instruction.

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Formative Assessments continue growth and learning.  Ongoing checkpoints have a greater impact on student achievement. It also allows for purposeful instruction.

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M. Watson

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The whole enterprise of teaching and learning really boils down to the formative assessment and the feedback that comes from it.

B.Jennings

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Formative assessment should be a part of every lesson and is ongoing. If someone stopped me in the hall and asked how I used formative assessment or what I learned about my students today, or this week, I should be able to respond easily! Feedback to students is an important part of formative assessment and helps them in their growth.

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Formative assessment should be a part of every lesson and is ongoing. If someone stopped me in the hall and asked how I used formative assessment or what I learned about my students today, or this week, I should be able to respond easily! Feedback to students is an important part of formative assessment and helps them in their growth.

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Nancy

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The best formative assessment involves descriptive feedback. They should be used as checkpoints and should be ongoing

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The best formative assessment involves descriptive feedback. They should be used as checkpoints and should be ongoing

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C Holsey

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- something that was summative can become formative

- formative assessments have the greatest impact on student achievement

- kids can learn without grades, but not without formative

- descriptive feedback - original goal?, where are you in mtg that goal?, what will we do to close that gap?

This was one of the best and clearest explanations if the difference between formative and summarize assessments I have seen - and I'm happy to realize I'm actively using formative assessments regularly.
Gleaton

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Failure is an option, real learning may occur, and redos are okay.  Hope is essential for students to rebound from failure.  Ongoing formative assessments with descriptive feedback lets students know their goal  and motive them to keep going!

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Failure is an option, real learning may occur, and redos are okay.  Hope is essential for students to rebound from failure.  Ongoing formative assessments with descriptive feedback lets students know their goal  and motive them to keep going!

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Mary Neely :)

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Formative Assessment gives teachers and students information about the learning/teaching occurring in the classroom. When paired with descriptive feedback it allows both parties to determine if the objectives of the lesson were met, where are the gaps, and how to close those gaps. 

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Formative Assessment gives teachers and students information about the learning/teaching occurring in the classroom. When paired with descriptive feedback it allows both parties to determine if the objectives of the lesson were met, where are the gaps, and how to close those gaps. 

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J. Childress

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The best use of formative assessments is to provide purposeful  feedback. It is a great way for students to see if they met the goal, how far away they were from it, and where to go moving forward. 

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The best use of formative assessments is to provide purposeful  feedback. It is a great way for students to see if they met the goal, how far away they were from it, and where to go moving forward. 

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J. Byrd

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Formative assessments have a bigger impact on learning than summative assessments. Formative assessments should be ongoing, have checkpoints, and include descriptive feedback.
J. Long

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A classroom that utilizes formative assessment should have lots of checks for understanding and students getting descriptive feedback.
K.Boutin

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Students can learn without grades, but to learn without purposeful feedback and formative assessment is impossible.

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Students can learn without grades, but to learn without purposeful feedback and formative assessment is impossible.

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Kelly Phelps

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It's critical for learning, and the teacher has a choice to turn a summative assessment into a formative assessment.  The greatest impact on students is the necessary feedback, in order for them to revise efforts and relearn.  That way they know where they are in relation to the set goal, and how they are getting there.
Sari D.

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Detailed, descriptive feedback is more beneficial than a letter grade.  An assessment will impact a student more if there is flexability (summative assessments do not have to be summative).

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Without formative assessment, be it formal or informal, no real learning has taken place.  The descriptive feedback that goes in tow with  this type of assessment is key for the student (and planning the next instructive step for the teacher).  Another take away- "Teachers don't always realize the summative assessment can become a formative assessment." 

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Without formative assessment, be it formal or informal, no real learning has taken place.  The descriptive feedback that goes in tow with  this type of assessment is key for the student (and planning the next instructive step for the teacher).  Another take away- "Teachers don't always realize the summative assessment can become a formative assessment." 

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-S Ragle

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Formative assessment has the greatest impact for student achievement and the best way to give and receive teacher feedback to drive instruction.
-Mike Ramarge

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Students grow by knowing the goal and what they need to improve on in order to reach the goal.  Ongoing assessment with feedback is helpful to them when there is immediate feedback. 

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Students grow by knowing the goal and what they need to improve on in order to reach the goal.  Ongoing assessment with feedback is helpful to them when there is immediate feedback. 

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By sharing effective feedback, students are able to take ownership of their learning. They are able to help map out on what they missed, where they are, and where they need to go.   This improves student success in the mastery of the content.
-Paul Cabell

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Student can not learn and grown without feedback from formative assessments. They can learn and grow without grades.
There are 3 aspects of formative feedback,  what is the goal, where is the child performing compared to the goal? and what are we going to do to close that gap?
-Jen D.

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- help students discover the goal
- help students discover where they are
-discuss how do we close the gap
Summative assessments could turn formative
On-going
-Katie C, Dori, Kelly, Caris, Sarah- K TEAM

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"A teacher who carefully designs, plan, and implements a task but doesn't act on the results is not fully engaging in formative assessment."

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"A teacher who carefully designs, plan, and implements a task but doesn't act on the results is not fully engaging in formative assessment."

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(Article from Educational Leadership - Looking at Student Work: The 2 E's)

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Sharing effective descriptive feedback with students includes three aspects:

1) What was the goal?  (objective)

2) Where are you in relation to it?

3) What are we going to do to close the gap?

-Trisha Kessler

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Teachers tend to take the most time on summative assessments, but we should be spending the most time on our formatives.  We need to provide formatives and ongoing feedback about them to our students.  

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Teachers tend to take the most time on summative assessments, but we should be spending the most time on our formatives.  We need to provide formatives and ongoing feedback about them to our students.  

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-Michelle Ramarge

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The best formative assessments are ongoing and involve descriptive feedback to the student.

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The best formative assessments are ongoing and involve descriptive feedback to the student.

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Kids can learn WITHOUT grades! Not everything has to be a grade.  If they failed that assignment, now you know you need to teach it a different way so that students can learn the content.
Megan B