EduTip 30: Do something after formative assessments.

The Cult of Pedagogy Podcast

Jennifer Gonzalez

Education, Teaching, Instruction, Classroommanagement, Educationreform

4.8 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

If I give my students an exit slip to check their grasp of a particular skill, and a third of them don’t do well, just moving forward with my original teaching plan is a missed opportunity. Ideally, my next steps should involve some kind of targeted response. Let's talk about what that looks like.

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0:00.0	Welcome to EduTip 30, where we'll talk about the importance of taking action after giving formative assessments.
0:07.3	Edututips is a side project of the Cult of Pedagogy podcast where I share one quick idea to make your teaching better.
0:13.6	This is Jennifer Gonzalez and I am your host.
0:16.7	Edgutiv 30 is sponsored by Studio.
0:19.5	Studio is a planning tool which allows students to track and plan all of their class work by estimating how much time a task will take and dividing larger tasks into smaller steps.
0:30.0	This is a valuable tool to support parent conversations and help each student plan their work and pace themselves.
0:37.4	Coaching students on better organization
0:39.1	has a direct impact on their grades as well as their long-term success. Studio offers a free plan
0:45.6	that allows students and parents to view all Google Classroom assignments and allows teachers
0:50.9	to post to Google Classroom directly from their schedule, as well as track student organization.
0:57.0	School and district plans come with added features like centralized timetables, workload management, and more LMS integrations.
1:05.2	Visit Studio.co slash Pedagogy to create your free account now and get your students planning. That's
1:12.5	s t-ud-y-o.c-o-c-o-c-slash pedagogy. Today's edut tip is do something after formative assessments.
1:22.9	Formative assessments are those smaller checks for understanding that we do throughout a unit of
1:27.2	instruction.
1:28.5	For example, if I'm teaching a three-week unit on a particular topic with a final test at the
1:33.4	end, I might include two or three smaller assessments along the way to gauge how students are
1:39.2	doing. Two really common formats for these assessments are quizzes and exit slips.
1:45.0	One mistake I see often and it's one I absolutely made myself all the time
1:50.0	is when these formative assessments are treated like regular graded assignments.
1:55.0	We give a quiz, record the score in the grade book, and count it toward a student's overall class grade. But that's not
2:02.0	really the purpose of formative assessment. These checks are meant to give us a snapshot of student
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