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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 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

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

Assessment Leadership Education

WestEd’s Formative Insights: Assessment for Learning

WestEd’s Formative Insights team leads transformative, scalable professional learning with teachers, leaders and policy makers. Rooted in current research, we enable dramatic shifts in the student rol

Assessment Collaborative Learning

Qridi - A Digital Platform for Formative Assessment

Qridi introduces learners and teachers to look at learning and progress as a group and as individuals. Learning is planned and monitored under the teacher’s guidance, future skills are strengthened an

Maths Pathway is a holistic Learning and Teaching Model that leverages technology to enable teachers to target each student’s point of need, and allows them to focus on practices that have the greates

News

New report Says Formative Assessment is Critical to Improving the Quality of Education Globally

The Jacobs Foundation and Finnish education organisation HundrED have released a new report highlighting 14 formative assessment solutions that support teaching and learning. The report finds that fo

26.6.2022 Mariah O'Mara

Bringing Future Forward Assessment Solutions to Light: Meet the Shortlisted Innovations

Celebrating 27 ideas that are changing the way we think about formative assessment. These education innovations are supporting both teaching and learning including the critical role students play in t

24.1.2022 Mariah O'Mara

The ‘Whys’ and ‘Hows’ of Incorporating Formative Assessments

In order to prepare students for the modern world, there is a growing need for formative assessments that allow teachers to develop students’ motivation and self-regulation through purposeful interact

9.11.2021 Shu Xin

Announcing a New Project Designed to Identify New Forms of Student Assessment

HundrED and the Jacobs Foundation announce the launch of a new project, the Formative Assessment: Improving Learning for Every Child Spotlight, which aims to understand how assessment can be used for

6.9.2021 Mariah O'Mara