A North Carolina school district will be adopting a computer-based formative assessment program to enable its teachers to differentiate instruction for students. McDowell County Schools has chosen ...

Formative assessment is critical to a teacher’s ability to adapt lessons and check for student understanding. New technology has made it easier to do this more often and collect significantly more ...

Teachers usually can’t use standardized tests to accelerate students’ learning. The tests are often too general and the results too slow in coming to help teachers make daily instructional decisions.