Formative Assessment: Improving Learning in Secondary Classrooms

摘要

The language of reform has been a hallmark of education for the last century or so. Reforming school systems, standards, curriculum, and teacher education has been the highlights of reform policy in education. In fact, educators have made some significant progress in terms of dealing with the issues of school systems, curriculum development, and professional development. Although reform-oriented methods of assessment are as important as reformed curricula and reform-based teaching strategies, assessment reform has received the least attention. Unfortunately, our understanding of assessment in the context of educational reform has been limited to the improvements to some psychometric attributes of standardized tests and end of unit classroom tests.