Formative Assessment Lessons (FALs)
Formative Assessment Lessons are lessons that help uncover student's understanding, and then develop that understanding. Some FALs are designed to help connect ideas, important concepts, and diverse mathematical knowledge. Others are designed to help students apply their math knowledge to novel problems.
The goal of the lesson is to make evident what students know and understand, not the right answer. These lessons are really about the process of doing mathematics, and thus are good windows into your student's embodiment of the Math Practices.
Formative Assessment Lessons often include many or all of these steps:
1 - Pre-Assessment - often done individually
after which the teacher decides on feedback questions
2 - Lesson - usually collaborative
teacher uses feedback questions to probe and push student thinking
3 - Whole Class Summative Discussion
4 - Post-assessment - often done individually
For more about elementary FALs, see here.
For more about secondary FALs, see here.
The goal of the lesson is to make evident what students know and understand, not the right answer. These lessons are really about the process of doing mathematics, and thus are good windows into your student's embodiment of the Math Practices.
Formative Assessment Lessons often include many or all of these steps:
1 - Pre-Assessment - often done individually
after which the teacher decides on feedback questions
2 - Lesson - usually collaborative
teacher uses feedback questions to probe and push student thinking
3 - Whole Class Summative Discussion
4 - Post-assessment - often done individually
For more about elementary FALs, see here.
For more about secondary FALs, see here.
