Principle 9

Ongoing formative assessment of students, which is informal, often daily assessment of how students are progressing under current instructional practices

Informal assessments are methods of seeing how students are doing and what they need to work on. These assessments inform instruction. Teachers need to know whether or not their students are progressing in order to meet their learning needs. If formative assessments are done daily, teachers will keep track of students' needs and enhance instructions to meet them. Teachers want to see all of their students succeed. By keeping track of their dialy performance, teachers will be able to modify instructions to make better performance possible.