Formative assessment

-       Gives students information about how their learning is progressing (Price et al.)

In formative assessment, the results are used for feedback during learning. Students and teachers both need to know how learning is proceeding. Formative feedback may operate both to improve the learning of individual students and to improve the teaching itself.

Formative feedback is a powerful TLA (teaching and learning activities) that uses error detection as the basis for error correction: if error is to be corrected, it must first be detected.

Source: Biggs, J.B., & Tang, C. (2007).