What is an example of a formative assessment in education? Help please?

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Answer 1

Formative assessments- think of them as "continual" assessments, to give you a sense of your students' progress in a content area and evaluated by specific benchmarks during this period

   Examples: Language Arts theme tests (e.g. in CA the Houghton Mifflin tests)

  

Answer 2

Formative assessments things such as exams, while summitive assessments are portfolios, rubrics, projects ect.