Formative assessmentIn education, the term assessment refers to the wide variety of methods or tools that educators use to evaluate, measure, and document the academic readiness, learning progress, skill... - also known as formative assessment, formative evaluation, formative feedback, assessment for learningAssessment for learning (AFL) is an approach to teaching and learning that creates feedback which is then used to improve students' performance. Students become more involved..., or diagnostic testing - is a range of formal and informal assessment procedures conducted by teachers during the learning processA series of actions, changes or operations performed in the making or creating of a product or outcomes. The procedures that one goes through in... in order to modify teaching and learning activities to improve student attainment.