SPACE: online tools for supporting formative instruction
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Modern pedagogies offer considerable promise for supporting improved student learning. Formative assessment can improve teaching and learning by using evidence of student understanding to adapt instruction. However, the current social and technical infrastructure of schooling often makes the teacher workload associated with such practices difficult to scale and sustain. We describe SPACE, an online tool for teachers and students to plan, do, formatively and summatively assess project-based Inquiry.
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