Understanding the Formative Assessment: A Road Towards Targets Achievements

Abstract

Learning is acclaimed to be a paramount and effective source of changing behavior across the world. To measure the behavior, there are techniques and skills to be learnt. Assessment in learning process enables the individual to examine the effectiveness of the various methods and techniques that the efforts are targeted or not and to see that the teachers, learners and instructional process in on the road to success. Formative assessment plays a decisive role to get the job done. The objectives of the study were to investigate the teachers’ perception about the usefulness of formative assessment in learning process and to get inform the educators about the worth of formative assessment process. All the working male teachers at primary, secondary, and higher secondary levels in District Mardan constituted the population of the study. Four hundred government school teachers for Boys were selected randomly as sample of the study. Among those 400 teachers, 300 were randomly selected for filling the questionnaire and 100 for conducting of informal interview. The collected data of the questionnaire was analyzed through percentages and inferential statistics i.e., chi-square by SPSS version 16. Themes, pattern were drawn and codification were made from the collected data of interviews. The study revealed that formative assessment is very effective and productive technique which plays a crucial role in boosting and stimulating instructional process.

Keywords: Learning, Assessment, Formative Assessment, Teachers, Goals