21st Century Strands & Strategies
Chapter: Strands & Strategies: Deep Dive
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Watch the video below to see how educators at Forest Lake Elementary School use
frequent formative assessments to determine the needs of each student, and then use
technology to address their individual learning styles.
Source: How Differentiated Instruction and Formative Assessment Work at Forest Lake Elementary
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by Edutopia
Connections
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Using frequent feedback from
students to tailor instruction to
address students' interests and
learning needs improves
student achievement (Black
and Wiliam, 1998; Light and
Polin, 2010; Thissen-Roe et al.,
2004).
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Online tools for embedded and
ongoing assessments help
instructors to more quickly and
frequently understand what students know in order to tailor instruction to better
address their learning needs.
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Embedding on-going assessment into curriculum has been shown to improve
student learning, particularly for struggling students and when assessments reveal
students' thinking processes in ways that inform instruction (Black and Wiliam,
1998).
