Formative Assessment Set
Designs so the wrong answers diagnose, since a score alone tells a teacher nothing about what to reteach.
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Running it, start to finish
- Name the decision this assessment would change.
- Build items where each wrong answer names a misconception.
- Write the response plan before you run it.
What you get back
The output this produces, every time.
- Requires a decision the assessment would change, or says it is measurement rather than formative.
- Designs wrong answers to diagnose specific misconceptions rather than just being incorrect.
- Writes the response plan before administering it, so results actually change something.
Getting better results
Where this usually goes wrong, and how to avoid it.
- Keep it genuinely low stakes. If it counts, learners optimise for looking right rather than showing what they think, which removes all diagnostic value.
- Get a response from everyone. Volunteered answers sample the confident, which is the group you least need information about.
- Reteach differently, not slower. If the explanation did not land, repeating it more slowly rarely helps. A different representation usually does.
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