Essential+Elements+of+the+Formative+Assessment+Process

__Six Elements of the Formative Assessment Process:__
 * 1) Shared learning targets and criteria for sucess
 * 2) Feedback that feeds forward
 * 3) Student goal setting
 * 4) Students self-assessment
 * 5) Strategic teacher questioning
 * 6) Student engagement is asking effective questioins

__Main purpose of formative assessment:__
 * to improve learning, not merely audit it

__Three Questions to Guide the Formative Assessment Process__
 * 1) Where am I going?
 * 2) Where am I now?
 * 3) What strategy/ strategies can help me get to where I need to go?

__Why does formative assessment work?__
 * becuase it has an effect on the teacher and the student
 * Teachers become more effective as they study the effectiveness of their instructional practices. They become more likely to make changes based on actual findings in the classroom, rather than sticking to personal beliefs about learning and classroom management
 * Students learn how to learn, they can tell you exactly what they did to learn something, and will then be able to repeat the process in the future
 * Learning factors: ownership, autonomy,confidence, and capability nurtures resiliency in students; thus helps low-achieving students more than others, because it teaches them that successes and failures are in their control, and keeps them from giving up
 * It blurs the boundries between teacher and learner, conversations occur regularly, and students feel control and gain motivation for their work in school