Formative assessment enables learners to monitor and reflect on their own learning progress.
Regular feedback allows learners to check their knowledge and understanding and work specifically on their weaknesses.
Formative assessment encourages active learning as learners have to continuously apply and review their knowledge.
Formative assessment allows learners to set their own learning goals and track their progress.
Oral feedback during the lesson:
Teachers give learners verbal feedback on their progress and performance during lessons.
Advantages:
Immediate feedback, direct interaction between teachers and students, opportunity to clarify questions and misunderstandings.
Written tasks and tests
Learners complete written tasks or tests to check their knowledge and understanding.
Advantages:
Opportunity for self-reflection, individualised pace, opportunity for targeted repetition and consolidation of the learning material.
Formative assessments enable learners to reflect on their own learning progress and recognise their strengths and weaknesses.
Formative assessments allow learners to set their own learning goals and track their progress.
Formative assessments promote self-regulation as learners plan, monitor and evaluate their learning independently.
Through formative assessments, learners receive feedback on their mistakes and can correct them in a targeted manner.
Formative assessments motivate learners to give their best and continuously improve.
Regular review of learning progress leads to:
Effective time management enables teachers to make the best use of teaching time and incorporate different assessment strategies into lessons without compromising learning progress.
Appropriate time management allows learners to plan time for reflection and self-assessment in order to reflect on their own learning and recognise their strengths and weaknesses.
Good time management allows learners to have time for dialogue and mutual assessment.
Good time management allows teachers to have time to communicate with learners to answer questions, give feedback and support learners in their individual learning goals.
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