Micro‑Formative Assessments That Work
Why This Learning Experience?
This instructor-guided professional learning experience is designed to help educators learn on their schedule while still receiving meaningful support. Participants complete practical activities, connect ideas to real classroom practice, and build confidence through application-focused learning.
Learning Experience Overview
This short professional development course equips educators with practical strategies to design and implement micro-formative assessments—quick, actionable checks for understanding that provide meaningful feedback without creating grading overload.
Participants explore the purpose and value of micro-formative assessments, examine classroom-ready examples, and learn how these strategies can improve student engagement, monitor learning, and inform instructional decisions. The course emphasizes practical application, providing educators with tools and templates that can be implemented immediately across grade levels and content areas.
By the end of the course, participants will have designed a micro-formative assessment aligned to a learning goal and developed a plan for using assessment data to support student learning.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Define micro-formative assessments and explain their role in the learning process.
- Describe the benefits of using quick checks for understanding to inform instruction.
- Evaluate a variety of classroom-ready micro-formative assessment strategies.
- Design a micro-formative assessment aligned to a specific learning objective.
- Reflect on how assessment data can be used to improve student learning and instructional decision-making.
Who Should Participate?
- Teachers overwhelmed by grading
- Educators needing real-time data
- Anyone wanting quick assessment strategies
