Formative assessment is considered to be helpful in students' learning support and teaching design. Following Aufschnaiter's and Alonzo's framework, formative assessment practices of teachers can be subdivided into three practices: eliciting evidence, interpreting evidence and responding. Since students' conceptions are judged to be important for…

Despite the often-negative discussion about testing in schools, assessments are a necessary and useful tool in the teaching and learning process. This is especially true when it comes to diagnostic and formative assessments, which give teachers real-time direction for what students need to learn to master course content. It is this space where the…

Data-driven instruction is still a huge scope and has many shades. One promising way of adding learning analytics to traditional teaching is to offer teachers accessible, data-driven information, either in a dashboard style or with a UI with which they could perform their own analysis on student data (e.g., Ben-Naim, Bain, & Marcus, 2009;…