Formative assessment is a tool used to show the teacher how learning is progressing. It also lets students know how they're doing. Assessment is any activity that requires students to recall their learning and demonstrate understanding, memory, and/or competency in it. Formative assessment is relatively informal, takes place during learning, and does not receive a grade.
This Blooket question set asks students to match a word to the part of speech it represents. Blooket games use the question set to drive the story, with correct answers giving a reward of energy or other items needed for gameplay. It provides a fast, fun review, with a variety of games to try out. Blooket allows a teacher to see the level of accuracy the class achieved in answering questions. Blooket is a fun and functional formative assessment tool.
Formative Assessment fits into the Danielson Framework under Component 1f, Designing and Analyzing Assessments. Used correctly, assessment is a powerful diagnostic tool to show what students have learned, what they still need to learn, and how well the student results are aligning with the intended Learning Outcomes. Formative assessment carried out over the course of a lesson will help the teacher see when to slow down and give students more time, more instruction, and more practice. It will also allow the teacher to see which students need extra scaffolding, as well as when they have already mastered a skill and are ready to move on! Formative assessment in the classroom can be as simple as holding a vote: "raise your hand if you think the answer is yes", or having students talk to their neighbor about a question and walking through the room to see which groups seem clueless. Formative assessment can also happen through planned quizzes, games, and other interactive activities. Any activity that requires students to recall their learning and demonstrate understanding, memory, and/ or competency in it can be a formative assessment.