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Formative Assessment and Progress Monitoring
Research has shown that formative assessment and progress monitoring that guides the course and nature of instruction helps students learn more e ectively.
Formative assessment includes “all those activities undertaken by teachers, and/or by their students, which provide information to be used as feedback to modify the teaching and learning activities in which they are engaged” (Black & Wiliam, 1998a, pp. 7–8).
Progress monitoring is a speci c type of formative assessment that tracks student progress over time, as speci ed in the Response to Intervention literature (Hasbrouck & Tindal, 2006; National Center on Response to Intervention [NCRTI], 2012).
Formative Assessment for Early Literacy
Formative assessment improves instruction by providing information on student needs, identifying instructional strategies that meet those needs, and allowing for a systematic look at children’s early literacy skills.
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