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Formative Assessment: Improving Learning for Every Child

Spotlight 2021

This project highlights 14 innovations that support both teaching and learning through formative assessment. Formative assessment refers to a variety of methods that teachers use in classrooms to conduct in-process evaluations of student comprehension, learning needs, and academic progress.

The Jacobs Foundation

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Important dates

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Spotlight Launched

6.9.2021

Submission Ends

15.11.2021

Selections Made

7.3.2022

Selections Announced

24.6.2022

Formative Assessment: Improving Learning for Every Child

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Innovations

Explore education innovations recognized by HundrED as well as innovations from shared by the education community across the world.

Assessment Collaborative Learning

Socrative is the classroom app for formative and summative assessments that allow you to quiz and grade at the speed of learning from any device. Check student understanding with prepared activities o

Peergrade is an online platform that facilitates anonymous peer feedback. With Peergrade students get faster and better feedback while engaging in higher order thinking. Features in Peergrade such as

Copenhagen, Denmark

Artificial Intelligence Assessment

Siyavula’s online Adaptive Practice and open online textbooks answer the need to improve school results in Mathematics and Science. Designed to work on low-end mobile devices, this innovation reaches

Assessment Blended Learning

Kadam - The Step Up Programme

Kadam, The Step Up Programme is a comprehensive set of tools and techniques to enable children to close their learning gaps, and for teachers to guide and facilitate the learning process. Each child i

Blended Learning Collaborative Learning

The Modern Classrooms Project

The Modern Classrooms Project empowers educators to build classrooms that respond to every student’s needs. We lead a movement of educators in implementing a self-paced, mastery-based instructional m

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