Sentence examples for formative testing from inspiring English sources

Lab tests with small numbers of participants are best in formative testing.

The VLE underwent substantive formative testing involving over 200 schoolchildren producing over 50 collaboratively written research papers.

The MISTRAL eLearning platform (Salcedo et al., 2005) includes CAT components for formative testing and should allow to determine the optimal learning content for a particular student.

But modern formative testing does not require sacrificing a morning to scantrons and number 2 pencils.

They use formative testing with kids to make sure that what they are designing works they way they think it will when children view or use their programs.

Put differently, formative testing measures not only how a student performs compared to an average but also how that student performs compared to herself in prior periods.

We developed computer-assisted formative tests for a teaching unit on evolutionary adaptations.

Joel W. Gingery Plymouth, Minn., Sept. 12, 2010 • To the Editor: Elisabeth Rosenthal, in her discussion of "formative tests," undercuts the intent of formative assessment.

With pretests in the fall, end-of-the-year tests in the spring and regular "formative" tests throughout the school year, students will lose weeks of instructional time.

Leaders of the Brotherhood readily acknowledge that steering Egypt through the crisis will be a formative test of their ability to govern.

Now, President Obama's Race to the Top educational competition — which announced billions of dollars in state grants this month — includes and encourages more reliance on what educators call "formative tests" or "formative assessments".