Formative assessment is an important part of the teaching and learning process. It allows students to better understand what they are learning and why, and helps ensure they are more successful. Developing effective formative assessment takes work from teachers, who must understand student needs, provide regular feedback, and create a comfortable learning environment. Teachers should clearly outline learning targets, give examples to help students understand lessons, and focus instruction daily to monitor progress without high-stakes exams that cause unnecessary stress.

1. Assessment & Reporting
Lucía Conde Cambelo
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I have never been taught what assessment is so, this subject is being completely
new and because of that, everything represents new learning for me. Despite that, in this
task I will focus on a specific thing that has caught my attention. Therefore, in the
following lines, I will focus on what I have learnt about formative assessment.
Formative assessment is a very important part in the teaching-learning process.
If formative assessment is carried out properly, results in summative assessment will be
better and students will learn more, even they will learn why they are working by one
way and no other or what they are going to be taught or assessed; definitively, they will
take more part in their learning process so they will feel involved and they will have
more success.
However, it is not easy to develop formative assessment in the classroom.
Formative assessment means work hard because teachers have to think and ask students
about their needs and interests, teacher have to communicate with the students in order
to help them to think and express their ideas and what they have learnt. This
communication should be reflective and we have to make students feel secure and
comfortable, creating a good environment in the class which facilitates the teaching-
learning process. It is also really important to give them personal feedback. Teachers
have to understand that feedback is better if it is given personally to each pupil and we
have to avoid comparisons because instead of making students improve we do the
contrary. I try not to compare students because, at the end, what teachers get by doing
this is to confront students.
Finally, I would like to say that it is truly important to let students know what
they are going to learn in each unit (learning targets) in order to make them feel part of
their own learning process and to foster them to learn and study more. Moreover teacher
have to give students clear examples to understand what they are being taught and try to
focus instruction on a day-to-day basis because, by this way, we can realized if students
are really improving or not and we do not have the necessity of doing written exams in
which students feel more nervous and anxious.