Webinar encourages classroom teachers to take advantage of readily available digital tools for frequent formative assessment practices. Highlighted are six tools including: Socrative, Kahoot, Quizizz, PearDeck, Nearpod, and Formative.

The formative assessment process is used by students and teachers during instruction to adjust teaching and learning strategies to reach their goals. So what is the formative assessment process? This video explores what it is, what it isn't, and why it is such a powerful tool for boosting learning outcomes.

From the Formative Assessment in Action series, California educator Toni David models formative assessment as her grade 5 class works collaboratively to create defining sentences in an effort to enhance a written explanation of why it rains.

From the Formative Assessment in Action series, California educator Matthew Cowan models formative practices as his grade 9 ELA class uses the Socratic method to debate the effects of texting and video games on student learning.

From the Formative Assessment in Action series, California educator Travis Burke models formative practices as his grade 6 math students share their problem solving strategies with each other and articulate why their strategy is best.

From the Formative Assessment in Action series, California educator Leisa Machado models formative practices as her grade 7 ELA class annotates an article, works collaboratively on posters, and uses text-on-text graffiti to provide feedback to peers.

This 12-minute video features Cassandra Gartung—an instructional coordinator in the Victor Elementary School District—demonstrating the formative assessment process as her grade three math class uses inquiry to identify and solve a math problem involving the number of knots tied in a given length of rope.

This Formative Assessment in Action or FAIA video features Christina Lambie of the Woodland Joint Unified School District, member of the Digital Library State Network of Educators (SNE) demonstrating formative assessment strategies.