Embedding Formative Assessment Quotes

“Most of what our students need to know hasn’t been discovered or invented yet. “Learning how to learn” used to be an optional extra in education; today, it’s a survival skill.”
― Dylan Wiliam, Embedding Formative Assessment: Practical Techniques for K-12 Classrooms

“the shorter the time interval between eliciting the evidence and using it to improve instruction, the bigger the likely impact on learning.”
― Dylan Wiliam, Embedding Formative Assessment: Practical Techniques for K-12 Classrooms

“It has long been known that learners remember responses they generate themselves better than those responses that are given to them, and this is now often called the generation effect (Slamecka & Graf, 1978). In particular, one hour students spend writing test questions on what they have been studying results in more learning for them than one hour spent working with a study guide, answering practice tests, or leaving the students to their own devices (Foos, Mora, & Tkacz, 1994).”
― Dylan Wiliam, Embedding Formative Assessment: Practical Techniques for K-12 Classrooms

“there is a significant body of research that shows that one hour students spend devising questions about what they have been learning with correct solutions is more effective than one hour spent completing practice tests”
― Dylan Wiliam, Embedding Formative Assessment: Practical Techniques for K-12 Classrooms