The Effect of Embedding Formative Assessment on Pupil Attainment
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What it found
A light-touch program in which teachers met in school-based learning communities to build formative assessment into everyday teaching raised pupils' results on national, externally marked exams by a small amount. It may have narrowed the gap between high and low prior attainers, but not the gap for disadvantaged pupils.
Effect size, as the source reports it: effect size 0.09 on national exam results (0.11 in sensitivity and complier analyses).
What kind of study it is
- Design
- Randomized trial in schools
- Weight
- A trial in schools: it compares groups that got the practice with groups that didn't.
- Sample
- 140 secondary schools in England, randomized
- Who
- School-age children (K–12)
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doi.org/10.1080/19345747.2021.2018746 · ERIC record EJ1367837
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