Students’ Role in the Formative Assessment Process
For an assessment process to truly be formative, assessment experts commonly stress that learners must be active participants in the process, using information from the assessment experience to determine next steps on their learning path.

Read the following quotes about the students' role in formative assessment practices. Consider the implications for your classroom practice and the ways assessment-literate educators might engage students as described by the authors.
Teacher’s Role in Formative Assessment
Formative Assessment That Improves Learning
In the publication, Leading the Way to Making Classroom Assessment Work, the authors identify positive research outcomes when students are involved in assessing their own learning. These include:
—Davies, Herbst, & Reynolds 2008 |