This policy details the requirement that medical students are provided with formative feedback by midpoint of a required course or clerkship that is four or more weeks in duration. This policy ...

Incorporating peer review and individual reflections makes frequent, intentional formative assessment manageable, with big ...

With a years-long shift to skills-based instruction and grading, this district found an unexpected outcome—an increase in AP ...

At the recent annual conference of the National Council of Teachers of English, Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey, both education professors at San Diego State University and teachers at Health Sciences ...

Student feedback can be broadly categorized as summative or formative. Summative feedback, such as RIT’s Student Evaluation of Teaching Effectiveness (SRATE), is gathered at the conclusion of a course ...

During the spring semester of 2020, Edu Montes Romero (Spanish and Portuguese) taught SPAN 1150: First Year Intensive Spanish. After teaching the course during previous semesters, Edu was worried that ...

In Ken Bain’s 2004 study of college faculty, he found that highly effective instructors believe that their students want to and are able to learn. These faculty build trusting relationships through ...

Formative feedback to identify students’ strengths and weaknesses as well as improvement opportunities, while they are still learning, is more valuable than a final grade. The same holds true for ...