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Formative assessment, formative evaluation, formative feedback, or assessment for learning, [1] including diagnostic testing, is a range of formal and informal assessment procedures conducted by teachers during the learning process in order to modify teaching and learning activities to improve student attainment.
Team-based learning ( TBL) is a collaborative learning and teaching strategy [1] that enables people to follow a structured process to enhance student engagement and the quality of student or trainee learning. [2] The term and concept was first popularized by Larry Michaelsen, the central figure in the development of the TBL method while at ...
With online communication, learning may occur outside traditional school hours as students participate in collaborative activities, like reading and responding to peer posts in online forums, experiments, group projects, research papers, and current events assignments. [7] In addition, online communication can connect a wide range of individuals and increase the diversity of perspectives that ...
Summative assessment, summative evaluation, or assessment of learning [1] is the assessment of participants in an educational program. Summative assessments are designed both to assess the effectiveness of the program and the learning of the participants.
A culminating project (also known as a senior project, grad project or exit project ), is a project that challenges high school seniors to demonstrate their academic knowledge in an experiential way (in most cases). According to the United States Department of Education, [1] State Education Boards typically allow individual school districts to ...
XQ Institute. XQ Institute is an Oakland, California -based nonprofit organization. [2] It describes itself as the nation’s leading organization dedicated to rethinking high school, because "our young people are growing up at a time when the economy, the workforce, and the environment are changing rapidly. And high schools must respond."
Project-based learning students take advantage of digital tools to produce high-quality, collaborative products. Project-based learning refocuses education on the student, not the curriculum—a shift mandated by the global world, which rewards intangible assets such as drive, passion, creativity, empathy, and resilience.
Cohort (educational group) A cohort is a group of students who work through a curriculum together to achieve the same academic degree together. Cohortians are the individual members of such a group. [1] [2] In a cohort, there is an expectation of richness to the learning process due to the multiple perspectives offered by the students. [3]