Implementation Of Formative Assessment Research Articles

Implementation of Informal Formative Assessment in An Elementary Math Classroom: A Case Study

A large body of research has shown the effectiveness of formative assessment on student learning. Yet research on teachers’ implementation of formative assessment is relatively underdeveloped. In addition, there has been a lack of effective instruments for observing teachers’ formative assessment practices. This study focuses on the ongoing informal formative assessment and explores the nature of one experienced elementary teacher’s formative assessment practices by drawing on a sociocultural perspective and the tool of Formative Assessment Rubrics, Reflection, and Observation Protocol. Primary data sources include classroom observations, interviews, and artifacts. Using inductive and deductive coding approaches, the study found the importance of creating a classroom culture of valuing and foregrounding student ideas when teachers communicate learning targets and elicit students’ thinking. In addition, the study sheds light on the teacher’s questioning practice with variations during informal FA. The study has implications for future research.

Efficacy of Formative Assessment Practices in Social Studies Instructions: A Case Study of Holy Child College of Education in Ghana

Assessment has become the foundation of all levels of education. This study aimed to examine the efficacy of formative assessment practices in Social Studies instructions at Holy Child College of Education in the Western Region of Ghana. A qualitative approach and a case study research design were adopted for this study. The case study focused on the teacher-trainee's views and roles of formative assessment in the teaching and learning process in Social Studies lessons. The population for this study included all seventy-five (75) final-year teacher-trainees offering a general programme for a Bachelor of Education in Social Studies in the Holy Child College of Education in the Western Region of Ghana. Purposive and convenience sampling techniques were used to select the College of Education and participants for the study. A purposive sampling technique was used to sample the college and municipality in the Western Region. Twenty (20) teacher trainees on teaching practice were conveniently sampled for the study. A semi-structured interview guide was the main tool used in data collection. The data was analysed using the interpretative technique based on the themes arrived at during the data collection. It was revealed that assessment for learning is a gradual engagement that takes place endlessly throughout ongoing classroom learning activities to offer immediate feedback for assessors and assesses to close the gap identified in the ongoing learning situation. Therefore, mentoring institutions like the University of Education, Winneba, University of Cape Coast and others should collaborate with the Ghana Teacher Education Commission to organise continuous professional development for colleges of education teachers on efficacy and implementation of formative assessment.

The impact of formative assessment techniques on students' self-assessment skills

The introduction of formative assessment to improve students' self-assessment skills was one of the main innovations in Kazakhstan. However, there are issues with the implementation of formative assessment and its introduction. This study aims to examine the impact of the author's formative assessment techniques on students' self-evaluations. One of the methods was experimental work carried out in 2021-2022 at Almaty Secondary School No. 198. This study was carried out using 55 fourth grade students   consisting of 27 students in grade four "A" (16 girls and 11 boys) as the experimental group (EG) and 28 students in grade four "B" (18 girls and 10 boys) as the control group (CG). The results identified problems with the introduction and implementation of formative assessments. This highlighted the importance of developing formative assessment strategies to improve students' self-evaluations.   Our findings confirm that the identified and methodically substantiated procedures for improving self-assessment in students in primary school may be employed in classes with younger students and in teacher training groups.

Introduction of Formative Assessment Classroom Techniques (FACTs) to School Chemistry Teaching: Teachers' Attitudes, Beliefs, and Experiences.

This paper presents teachers' perspectives and experiences with the implementation of formative assessment (FA) into chemistry lessons at the secondary school level through Formative Assessment Classroom Techniques (FACTs). The research had a qualitative character and was based on semistructured interviews focused on: the definition and previous use of FA, implementation experience, and teachers' beliefs, attitudes, and abilities. The research describes five cases-chemistry teachers participating in a professional development program. The 2 year-long training was focused on the theory of FA, practical exercises, and extended support during in-school FACTs implementation. The results showed that using FACTs during secondary school chemistry lessons emphasizes students' strengths and weaknesses, encourages them to perform truthful self-assessments, and engages them. Moreover, using FACTs opens new areas for parents' involvement in the assessment and learning process that can be especially valuable for students with special educational needs. The main challenges cited by teachers were time management, policy support, and the need for further assistance during FACTs implementation.

Barriers to Basic School Teachers’ Implementation of Formative Assessment in the Cape Coast Metropolis of Ghana

Abstract Despite the identified benefits of formative assessment to teaching and learning, its implementation in the classroom remains a significant challenge to teachers. This has widened the gap between the theory and practice of formative assessment in the classroom to enhance students’ learning. This study investigated the potential resource-related factors that affect basic teachers’ adoption of formative assessment in their classrooms. A descriptive survey design with a multistage sampling procedure was employed to select 300 teachers from the six circuits in the Cape Coast Metropolis of Ghana. Data gathered were analyzed using descriptive (mean values, SD) and inferential statistics (two-way ANOVA). Time, workload, overcrowded curriculum, class size, and the number of lessons were reported as barriers to the effective implementation of formative assessment. Findings also revealed no statistically significant interaction effect of gender and grade level on the resource-related barriers. Moreover, grade level and gender had no statistically significant main effects with respect to the resource-related barriers. Recommendations and implications for policy, practice, and future research are discussed.

Examining Formative Assessment Practices in Mathematics in Primary Schools: China and Tanzania Comparative review

Evaluation plays an enormous role in the teaching and learning process. Being aware of this, both China and Tanzania use formative assessment to meet the ‎requirements of competence-based curricula especially in mathematics at primary school level. ‎Therefore, the purpose of this study was to look into the formative assessment practices, nature, ‎challenges in mathematics used by Chinese and Tanzanian primary schools. This report used ‎documentary analysis to consult articles, dissertations, and books found in different electronic ‎journals such as ERIC and Science Direct and deem them to have suitable information for the ‎study. The report found that evaluation methods such as test, assignments, homework, and ‎projects are common in both countries. Moreover, some dissimilar is some form of assessment ‎including terminal test and monthly test which are common in Tanzania. Furthermore, bustling ‎classes, heavy teaching loads, and a lack of clarity on the formative assessment implementation ‎strategies have similarly contributed to the ineffective formative assessment in both countries. ‎Further, the researcher recommends the recruitment of mathematics teachers and the provision of ‎in-service and pre-service training to the teachers to reduce ineffectiveness in the implementation ‎of formative assessment in Chinese and Tanzanian primary schools.‎

The Implementation of Formative Assessment in the Teaching of CET-4 Paragraph Translation

The Implementation of Formative Assessment in the Teaching of CET-4 Paragraph Translation

Study of Google Form-Based Assessment for Learning at UPT SD Negeri Binangun 01, Blitar Regency

Assessment for learning is an integral part of the learning process. One part of the assessment for learning is formative assessment. In the 21st century learning era, the implementation of formative assessments is often implemented on a digital basis. Google form is a platform that often used in the implementation of formative assessments. This study aims to examine the google form-based assessment for learning in class III to VI UPT SD Negeri Binangun 01 Blitar Regency. The research subjects consisted of 9 teachers and 173 students. The method used in this research is a qualitative descriptive research method. Research data obtained by data collection techniques from the results of questionnaires, observations, interviews, and documentation. Based on the analysis of the research data it was concluded that the use of google forms can make it easier for teachers to apply formative assessments in the form of objective questions, namely multiple choice, matching, true/false, and attitude scales (yess/no). The easeness experienced by the teacher can be seen in the activities making questions, making answer keys, determining scores, accessing answers and accessing student scores collectively on objective questions. Teachers encounter obstacles in making answer keys, determining scores, and accessing scores on questions in the form of short answers and essays. According to students, making formative assessments through google forms is more practical, attractive, safe, economical (paper and cost), in accordance with digital developments, and can be deleted easily. The weaknesses according to students and teachers are in the form of internet network constraints and electricity networks

Implementation of Formative Assessment in Engineering Education

Formative assessment is an assessment of student learning that aims to improve students' skills or understanding of certain course themes. Formative evaluations are often conducted in class, can be conducted anonymously, and are typically much more focused on certain abilities or knowledge. This article presents a comprehensive literature analysis on formative assessment in engineering education. As an integrated narrative review, this study's methodology included a systematic search, review, and writing of the literature in order to synthesize the important themes and conclusions of research in this field. The authors selected and reviewed the available literature using qualitative thematic criteria, focusing on the relationship between formative assessment and students' attitudes, FA and self-regulation skills, online formative evaluation, validity, reliability, and dishonesty of assessment, and engagement with critical learning processes. An increase in student involvement and centrality in the process as primary actors, as well as the building of a learning community, are among the cited benefits. According to the primary results, effective online formative assessment can generate a student- and assessment-centered emphasis through formative feedback and enhanced learner engagement with significant learning experiences. In the context of online formative assessment, it has been discovered that ongoing authentic assessment activities and interactive formative feedback are vital for overcoming validity and reliability concerns.

Implementation of Formative Assessment in Teaching Infographics

Designing learning instruction or pedagogical activities is one of the elements in constructive alignment. Constructive alignment is needed to assess students’ learning on the concept of infographics. In teaching the concept of infographics with good storytelling, students need to understand the principles and categories of visualization. This concept is quite challenging for students to understand and implement in real situations. Based on the given data, most of the students have used the wrong visualization technique. Therefore, this article provides the explanation on how a formative assessment can be conducted via online. In doing this, the researcher involved a group of postgraduate students in a case study. Findings show these students can improve their design via group work activities. Hopefully, this article contributes to provide innovative ideas on online learning and teaching andragogy and thus, makes it more meaningful and engaging to both students and teachers.

Implementation of formative assessment in the English language classroom: insights from three primary schools in Singapore

Implementation of formative assessment in the English language classroom: insights from three primary schools in Singapore

The Role of Senior Leader Team on The Formative Assessment Practices among Primary School Teachers in Petaling

Formative assessment has become a most discussed topic when many countries recognized the importance of assessment for learning in enhancing students’ holistic development. Most of the times, teachers are not quite clear with the differences between assessment of learning and assessment for learning. In Malaysia, teachers still feel uncomfortable with the implementation of formative assessment compared to summative assessment due to the heavy workload to prepare the tests by themselves. Hence, this study was conducted to examine the role of leaders and how the leader’s role was associated with teachers’ formative assessment practices in schools. An online questionnaire was administered to a total of 198 randomly selected teachers from 25 public primary schools in Petaling. A descriptive correlational research design was employed to identify the relationship between these two variables. The findings indicated that there was a moderately strong linear relationship between the role of the leaders and teachers’ formative assessment practices in schools. The study also revealed that the role of leaders has significantly predicted the teachers’ formative assessment practices with 20.4% of contribution. The findings showed that teachers’ practices in formative assessment process still far from much desired, and leaders still need to further enhance their implementation of formative assessment in school. Overall, this study has its contribution for the enrichment of the body of knowledge of formative assessment and provided insights for the improvement of the implementation of formative assessment in schools.

The Adventure of Formative Assessment with Active Feedback in The Vocational Learning: The Empirical Effect for Increasing Students' Achievement

The use of formative assessment with active feedback in learning greatly contributes to the professional development of educators and student learning, but the use of the formative function of an evaluation has not been maximally applied in learning. In fact, this formative assessment if applied correctly and with active feedback, it can improve the quality of learning. This formative assessment with active feedback is not only to give a rating, but to see how far the students' mastery is and what they have not mastered. Many studies explain the positive and negative effects of applying formative tests at various levels and fields of science. Therefore, this study aims to see the impact of the formative assessment with active feedback on vocational education in higher education. This study is a quasi-experimental, with a pretest posttest control design. Based on research findings, the implementation of formative assessment with active feedback has been found to significantly improve students' academic achievement towards class. The implication of this study is the research findings will contribute to existing knowledge, particularly to determine the effect of formative tests with active feedback on student achievement.

Analysis of Implementation and Perception of Online Formative Assessment on Students’ Speaking Skill at Sukasada

This study investigated the perspective and the implementation of formative assessments by the teacher to the students in the SMPN 1 Sukasada. There were 1 English teacher and 11 students investigated as the informants. The data gained through closed-ended questionnaires and the teacher was interviewed by using Whatsapp chat. The result of this study shows that the teacher cannot assess the students’ speaking skill during this pandemic. In the point of view of students, they thought that speaking is important but, they do not have any gadgets to support their improvement in speaking skill. Based on this result the teacher has important role in developing the students’ language skills in order to achieve the objectives of the learning. The students also should be able to manage themselves during online learning. It is very challenging for both of participants in achieving the successes of the learning objectives

Analysis of Implementation and Perception of Online Formative Assessment on Students’ Speaking Skill at Sukasada

This study investigated the perspective and the implementation of formative assessments by the teacher to the students in the SMPN 1 Sukasada. There were 1 English teacher and 11 students investigated as the informants. The data gained through closed-ended questionnaires and the teacher was interviewed by using Whatsapp chat. The result of this study shows that the teacher cannot assess the students’ speaking skill during this pandemic. In the point of view of students, they thought that speaking is important but, they do not have any gadgets to support their improvement in speaking skill. Based on this result the teacher has important role in developing the students’ language skills in order to achieve the objectives of the learning. The students also should be able to manage themselves during online learning. It is very challenging for both of participants in achieving the successes of the learning objectives.

Formative Assessment and Self-Regulated Learning during Pandemic Era

During online learning in Covid-19 outbreak, self-regulation is needed more due to the different learning situation and distance between student and teacher. One of the ways to support student self-regulated learning in EFL classes is through the implementation of formative assessment. The aim of this study is to find out the formative assessment that EFL teachers use in online learning and how they perceive the role of formative assessment in supporting students’ self-regulated learning. To get the data, questionnaire adapted from Gan et al. (2019); Pat-El et al. (2013) was utilized. Interviews also were conducted to get deeper understanding about the findings obtained through questionnaire. The findings revealed that during online learning, EFL teachers used a variety of formative assessment techniques, using online platforms that were easy to use. They agreed that students need to have self-regulated learning skills during online learning. However, some of them did not know for sure that the formative assessment they conducted could enhance students’ self-regulated learning since only some students submitted their work. Further research can be done to find out strategies to implement formative assessment using technologies or tools utilized in online learning where the students can get immediate feedback and use it to help them improve their learning.

Examination of teacher formative assessment self-efficacy development across a professional learning experience

ABSTRACT In this study, in the United States, the authors used multilevel growth modeling to examine the impact of an intensive, year-long professional development program on teacher self-efficacy for formative assessment tasks. They further examined the relationship between self-efficacy and observed implementation of formative assessment practices in the classroom. Participants included 189 teachers from 17 schools across nine districts in a northwestern state. Results showed a significant (p < .001) growth in self-efficacy through six measurement points. The relationship between self-efficacy and classroom practice was found to be weak-to-negative, suggesting higher levels of self-efficacy were not necessarily associated with successful implementation of formative assessment. These results signal a need to support teachers’ abilities to provide accurate self-assessment, examine additional variables that may influence a teacher’s successful implementation of formative assessment, and critically examine the use of self-efficacy as an outcome variable in the study of teacher professional learning.

The Implementation of Online Formative Assessment in English Learning

The pandemic of COVID-19 is one of the major disasters in 2020 that have occurred throughout the world, including Indonesia. In the present situation and condition, in which most schools are currently implementing an online learning process, it is necessary to make sure that every students gain the information or knowledge that they must get as the result of the learning process. Hence, the formative assessment is in accordance with everyone's expectations that student must continue to gain information as their online learning outcomes.  This study aimed to review other studies conducted by some previous researchers regarding the implementation of formative assessment in online learning environment. Since this kind of assessment was only recently applied in the COVID-19 pandemic situation, it is important to investigate the effect, as well as the perception of students and teacher in implementing formative assessment in online learning environment. A library research was conducted to collect the data. From this review study, it can be concluded that this assessment technique has the potential to be very useful to be implemented in English learning, both for teachers and students. There are correlation between motivation, self-efficacy, and strategic regulation of learning. The students and teacher also showed positive perception towards online formative assessment. Both the students and the teacher gained many beneficial things after the implementation of online formative assessment in English learning.

The Implementation of Online Formative Assessment in English Learning

The pandemic of COVID-19 is one of the major disasters in 2020 that have occurred throughout the world, including Indonesia. In the present situation and condition, in which most schools are currently implementing an online learning process, it is necessary to make sure that every students gain the information or knowledge that they must get as the result of the learning process. Hence, the formative assessment is in accordance with everyone's expectations that student must continue to gain information as their online learning outcomes.  This study aimed to review other studies conducted by some previous researchers regarding the implementation of formative assessment in online learning environment. Since this kind of assessment was only recently applied in the COVID-19 pandemic situation, it is important to investigate the effect, as well as the perception of students and teacher in implementing formative assessment in online learning environment. A library research was conducted to collect the data. From this review study, it can be concluded that this assessment technique has the potential to be very useful to be implemented in English learning, both for teachers and students. There are correlation between motivation, self-efficacy, and strategic regulation of learning. The students and teacher also showed positive perception towards online formative assessment. Both the students and the teacher gained many beneficial things after the implementation of online formative assessment in English learning.

Preservice teachers’ implementation of formative assessment in English writing class: Mentoring matters

This multiple-case study investigated the experience of three preservice teachers who attempted formative assessment (FA) strategies in their English as a second language writing class during their teaching practicum in a secondary school in Hong Kong. Based on data from 17 lesson observations and 24 interviews, the study examined the three teachers’ implementation of FA strategies during cycles of pre-, while- and post-writing stages. Also analyzed are the teachers’ reflections on and their mentors’ and students’ evaluation of their FA implementation. The study found the teachers could translate their understanding of FA principles into teaching and assessment strategies appropriately, but the school’s accountability culture worked against their innovation. School mentors’ open-mindedness and support to their FA attempts were found to be crucial. The findings are discussed centering on key issues in the relational, developmental and contextual dimensions of the teaching practicum and their impact on preservice teachers’ practice and attitude.