Carol Boston says “Black and Wiliam (1998b) define assessment broadly to include all activities that teachers and students undertake to get information that can be used diagnostically to alter ...

Corrected: An earlier version of this study incorrectly described the 1998 study by Paul Black and Dylan Wiliam. It is a literature review. If you ask five teachers what formative assessment is, ...

Responding to the dramatic increase in obesity and type 2 diabetes among children and adolescents, in 2002 the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases of the National ...

A clear case has been made in the literature regarding the role of the learner in formative evaluation of instructional materials. In contrast, research on the role of the expert has been limited.

Evaluating community risk reduction (CRR) programs can be simple and straightforward-if you’re evaluating an individual part of them. But when you consider that CRR encompasses all of a department’s ...

Review of Educational Research (RER) publishes critical, integrative reviews of research literature bearing on education. Such reviews should include conceptualizations, interpretations, and syntheses ...