NEW TOOL: How can formative assessment support culturally responsive argumentation in a classroom community?

Posted on March 11, 2016

The learning of all complex knowledge benefits from timely and focused feedback from a more expert other. That is why using formative assessment practices in the classroom are so powerful. Formative assessment techniques can be used to improve how students engage in the science and engineering practices. In this new tool formative assessment is used to engage students in a culturally responsive form of the argumentation practice. It was co-authored by Deb Morrison and Angela DeBarger.