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Formative Assessment: Improving Learning for Every Child

Spotlight 2021

This project highlights 14 innovations that support both teaching and learning through formative assessment. Formative assessment refers to a variety of methods that teachers use in classrooms to conduct in-process evaluations of student comprehension, learning needs, and academic progress.

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Important dates

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Spotlight Launched

6.9.2021

Submission Ends

15.11.2021

Selections Made

7.3.2022

Selections Announced

24.6.2022

Spotlight: Formative Assessment - Improving Learning for Every Child

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Innovations

Explore education innovations recognized by HundrED as well as innovations from shared by the education community across the world.

Assessment Leadership

WestEd’s Formative Insights: Assessment for Learning

WestEd’s Formative Insights team leads transformative, scalable professional learning with teachers, leaders and policy makers. Rooted in current research, we enable dramatic shifts in the student rol

Assessment Blended Learning

Kadam - The Step Up Programme

Kadam, The Step Up Programme is a comprehensive set of tools and techniques to enable children to close their learning gaps, and for teachers to guide and facilitate the learning process. Each child i

Artificial Intelligence Assessment

Siyavula’s online Adaptive Practice and open online textbooks answer the need to improve school results in Mathematics and Science. Designed to work on low-end mobile devices, this innovation reaches

Assessment Collaborative Learning

Classtime is a solution for teachers that complements in-class teaching with immediate feedback on every student’s level of understanding by asking questions and validating answers. Our Collaborative

Assessment Collaborative Learning

Sapieduca (Sapientia)

Gamified application that allows the students to get involved in subject challenges, questions and problem solving, improving the learning process as a playful and engaging activity. It is a tool for

News

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The ‘Whys’ and ‘Hows’ of Incorporating Formative Assessments

In order to prepare students for the modern world, there is a growing need for formative assessments that allow teachers to develop students’ motivation and self-regulation through purposeful interact

9.11.2021 Shu Xin

Announcing a New Project Designed to Identify New Forms of Student Assessment

HundrED and the Jacobs Foundation announce the launch of a new project, the Formative Assessment: Improving Learning for Every Child Spotlight, which aims to understand how assessment can be used for

6.9.2021 Mariah O'Mara