What is formative assessment? 

The feedback that you provide to students as they work

What is feedback?

What you say and how you interact with students to help them improve

Traditional feedback methods include written and 1:1 conferencing

Progressive feedback methods include digital comments, audio and video

Digital Production: within the context of this study refers to student work that is produced with the assistance of technology; digital production commonly includes written work in the form of online documents, presentations using slide software, student generated video and development of websites that are hosted online.

This is the content they create online

Feedback: is used to address a gap between an existing level of performance and what is expected by the teacher; it may be positive or negative in nature, identifies strengths and weaknesses and encourages students to be motivated to take action towards further improvement to reach academic goals (Sadler, 1989; Ramaprasad, 1983).

These are the thoughts you share about their work with them

Formative Assessment: offers students the opportunity to increase performance outcome through the provision of feedback and then gives students the ability to self-regulate their learning by improving their own work prior to a final evaluation (Sadler, 1989; Scriven, 1966).

Giving feedback to them while they work so they can adapt and improve

 Screencasting: is defined as a video recording of activity showing what is on the screen, usually in combination with vocal and/or webcam “talking head” components to be viewed by others (Anson et. al, 2016). 

Talking head: webcam picture of teacher speaking capturing vocal intonation, facial expression and gestures during recording (Anson et. al, 2016). 

Video feedback: has been used interchangeably with the terminology “screencasting feedback” as the product results in an mp4 file of video content that can be viewed by others (Matthews, 2019; Mahoney et. al, 2019).

An alternative method to providing feedback digitally

      Self-Regulated Learning (SRL):  is the control students have over their own learning by engaging in active steps towards monitoring their own goals and having autonomy or decisionmaking over their own cognition, motivations and behavior in their progress (Panadero & Alonso-Tapia, 2014; Nicol and Macfarlane-Dick 2006). 

Create SRL's, one of the goals of digital feedback for formative assessment