There are six High-Yield Instructional Practices (HYPs) in the Formative Assessment Toolkit:

1. Providing Formative Evaluation

2. Cooperative vs. Competitive Learning

3. Reciprocal Teaching

4. Feedback

5. Brief and Non-graded Assessment

6. More Informative and Graded

GOAL: To Equip Teachers with Strategies for Continuous Curriculum-Based Assessment of Progress

This toolkit teaches effective ways to collect formative assessment data to inform future lesson planning and instruction.

• Can be formal or informal in nature

• Includes curriculum-based measurement, curriculum-based assessment, or teacher observation

• Captures data allowing a teacher to evaluate student performance as it relates to learning targets and objectives.

• Measures a student’s performance during and at the conclusion of instruction and is considered evaluation FOR learning