Part 2: Digital Age Assessment--A Look at How Technology Use in Formative Assessments Improves Feedback and Reporting Opportunities

Once teachers have identified and shared the standards with students, instructed them via meaningful learning experiences, monitored their progress, and diagnosed learning strengths and gaps, they are ready to give feedback and report on student growth. This formative feedback directly helps students improve their performance. Ultimately, through the use of technology, teachers gain many tools that help them give students formative feedback and report on their progress. These students grasp that their teachers sincerely want them to succeed and are empowered with strategies to become successful learners. [For Part 1, see EJ793830.]