The digital learning tools flooding schools come with a tantalizing promise: real-time feedback on what children know, combined with fingertip access to a dizzying array of tailored instructional ...

As education policy moves away from the much-maligned No Child Left Behind and toward new legislation focusing on learning outcomes, technology-enabled formative assessments are moving to the ...

How can you prepare students for workplace experiences that don’t exist yet? As an educator in this digital age, that’s one of my biggest challenges. The real test is finding ways to truly get your ...

CFY, an education nonprofit, has updated its free learning platform, PowerMyLearning, with new tools for formative assessments. PowerMyLearning allows educators to create and assign playlists of ...

As more students have access to computers in K-12 classrooms each year, teachers are turning more often to those devices for the age-old practice of conducting formative assessment. A 2016 Education ...

For decades, formative assessment has been a silent engine for learning—powering insights about student progress and worker readiness. But let’s be honest, in a world where technology is evolving ...

Edmodo, which operates the popular education social networking site of the same name, has released a new formative assessment tool called Snapshot, which is "designed to provide real-time insight into ...

Tests are an important tool in educators' arsenal. Photo by Andy Rennle/Flickr CC 2.0 We live in an age of assessment in education. One of my friends -- who happens to be a vice president of a large ...

As game-based learning gains momentum in education circles, teachers increasingly want substantive proof that games are helpful for learning. The game-makers at the non-profit GlassLab are hoping to ...