by Lee Watanabe Crockett | Essential Questions
Editor’s note: This is an updated version of the article featuring an all-new shareable infographic courtesy of the gang at Venngage. When students become active learners, they learn that there might be more than one correct answer to a question and whether an... 
by Lee Watanabe Crockett | Assessment
Formative assessment strategies in the classroom provide both teachers and students with invaluable information about what students understand, and what they don’t. These ungraded assessments are valuable guides for students to help them enhance their performance.... 
by Lee Watanabe Crockett | Assessment
Formative assessment has the advantage of being a quick and easy way to measure understanding, depending on how you want to use it. In the past we’ve written a lot about using fast and fun formative activities for monitoring your learners’ understanding.... 
by Lee Watanabe Crockett | Assessment
If research driven evidence is a prerequisite for using strategies in enhancing learning, using formative assessment fits the requirement precisely. According to W. James Popham, in his book Transformative Assessment, “formative assessment is given credit for... 
by Lee Watanabe Crockett | Essential Questions
For a long time we’ve advocated the use of self-reflective questions with our learners as a way for them to debrief their learning processes in the classroom in order to improve and grow. This is just as useful a practice for teachers as it is for learners,... 
by Lee Watanabe Crockett | Assessment
When we wrote our recent book Mindful Assessment, our mission was to provide educators the world over with a singular understanding: that it is the learner, and not the teacher, who creates learning. As teachers, it’s our responsibility to learn how to guide... 
by Lee Watanabe Crockett | Assessment
When it comes to classroom productivity, the ideal classroom is a happy one. It means students are creating solutions and projects that have meaning and purpose. It’s where they gladly take initiatives and assume responsible ownership of class time. Above all,... 
by Lee Watanabe Crockett | Assessment
If you’re like many teachers, you have a regiment of self-assessment that you use. Musicians, athletes, or artists critique their own work daily. We hope that the same self-analysis can be carried over to our students. Fostering lifelong learning mindsets in our kids... 
by Lee Watanabe Crockett | Assessment
Formative assessment problems are a fact of life and learning. FA has its challenges to be sure. Remember that no assessment method is really 100% foolproof. There’s so much to consider and so many different students. You can fix many formative assessment... 
