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Latest revision as of 14:16, 28 November 2020

Education.

In education, a formative assessment is one with the primary goals of:

  • helping students identify their strengths and weaknesses and target areas that need work; and
  • helping the teaching faculty to recognise where students are struggling and to address problems immediately.


See also