These versatile strategies—from brain dumps to speed sharing—help students track their own progress while informing your next instructional steps.

You’ve checked for understanding—now you can use this framework to understand what students’ confusion is telling you, and how you can adjust course.

Teachers usually can’t use standardized tests to accelerate students’ learning. The tests are often too general and the results too slow in coming to help teachers make daily instructional decisions.

RICHARD J. STIGGINS is widely known as an advocate of classroom assessments in the service of student learning. His long career in testing brought him to that vantage point: He holds a doctorate in ...