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Sezen-Barrie, Asli; Kelly, Gregory J. – International Journal of Science Education, 2017
This study focuses on teachers' use of informal formative assessments (IFAs) aimed at improving students' learning and teachers' recognition of students' learning processes. The study was designed as an explorative case study of four middle school teachers and their students at a charter school in the northeastern U.S.A. The data collected for the…
Descriptors: Informal Assessment, Formative Evaluation, Middle School Teachers, Middle School Students
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Watson, Anne – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy and Practice, 2006
In this theoretical paper the informal assessment practices of two experienced teachers are used as cases for generating questions about future developments in formative assessment practice. Both teachers maintain a consistent formative assessment focus on the development of their students as enquirers, and one of them supplements this with…
Descriptors: Informal Assessment, Formative Evaluation, Case Studies, Student Development