Through informal assessment, a teacher becomes a guide throughout the learning process, rather than the judge of the student’s final product. While committing to formative—or informal—assessment ...

Students often draw upon a diverse set of prior understanding and experiences when attempting to explain phenomena. Formative assessment allows teachers to better understand students’ alternative ...

The Elementary School Journal, Vol. 112, No. 2 (December 2011), pp. 205-233 (29 pages) AbstractThis longitudinal study investigated children's performance on several informal reading and spelling ...

This week’s new question-of-the-week is: What are effective assessment strategies for multilingual learners? Assessment is a key element of teaching—we need to know where our students are in the ...

Feature Matching is a collaborative process in which informal assessment strategies are used to gather relevant information about a client’s communication and sensorimotor abilities. The AAC ...

I love hyphens. Always have. Always will. If used properly, hyphens make things easier to read. This is because hyphenated words let readers know there’s something still coming in a phrase that’s ...