Formative assessment practice in secondary education

Summary

Using formative assessment in the classroom is
something many teachers wish to do, but are not doing yet, especially in
secondary education. Around one hundred secondary school teachers of thirteen different schools in the Netherlands participated in a learning network to
professionalise in how to use formative assessment in the classroom. The
formative assessment cycle was used as a framework to help teachers implement
formative assessment strategies. This framework describes the formative
assessment process in five phases: (1) Clarifying expectations in learning
goals and success criteria; (2) Eliciting student responses to collect
information about the learning process; (3) Analysing and interpreting these
responses; (4) Communicating with students about the responses, (5) and
Adapting teaching and learning by taking follow-up actions.

In this dissertation is researched how teachers implemented these five phases in their daily teaching and how students were involved.