Journal article
Can I Have Your Recipe? Using a Fidelity of Implementation (FOI) Framework to Identify the Key Ingredients of Formative Assessment for Learning
CBE life sciences education, Vol.17(4), pp.es16-es16
2018
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/103909
PMCID: PMC6755885
PMID: 30417756
Abstract
For decades, formative assessment has been identified as a high-impact instructional practice that positively affects student learning. Education reform documents such as
Vision and Change: A Call to Action
expressly identify frequent, ongoing formative assessment and feedback as a key instructional practice in student-centered learning environments. Historically, effect sizes between 0.4 and 0.7 have been reported for formative assessment experiments. However, more recent meta-analyses have reported much lower effect sizes. It is unclear whether the variability in reported effects is due to formative assessment as an instructional practice in and of itself, differences in how formative assessment was enacted across studies, or other mitigating factors. We propose that application of a fidelity of implementation (FOI) framework to define the critical components of formative assessment will increase the validity of future impact studies. In this
Essay
, we apply core principles from the FOI literature to hypothesize about the critical components of formative assessment as a high-impact instructional practice. In doing so, we begin the iterative process through which further research can develop valid and reliable measures of the FOI of formative assessment. Such measures are necessary to empirically determine when, how, and under what conditions formative assessment supports student learning.
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- Title
- Can I Have Your Recipe? Using a Fidelity of Implementation (FOI) Framework to Identify the Key Ingredients of Formative Assessment for Learning
- Creators
- Erika G Offerdahl - School of Molecular Biosciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-7520Melody McConnell - Department of Biological Sciences, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58108Jeffrey Boyer - Dean’s Office, College of Science and Mathematics, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58108
- Publication Details
- CBE life sciences education, Vol.17(4), pp.es16-es16
- Academic Unit
- Molecular Biosciences, School of
- Publisher
- American Society for Cell Biology
- Identifiers
- 99900546931001842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article