Inside the Black Box: Raising Standards Through Classroom Assessment
http://weaeducation.typepad.co.uk/files/blackbox-1.pdf
Black and Wiliam’s publication is a must read. Many articles reference this one.


Formative Assessment and
Next-Generation Assessment Systems:
Are We Losing an Opportunity?
by Margaret Heritage
http://www.edweek.org/media/formative_assessment_next_generation_heritage.pdf
Another important paper.


What is Formative Assessment
PearsonEdMeasurement.com
http://www.pearsonedmeasurement.com/bulletin/Formative%20Assessment_Bulletin.pdf
Short but clarifies the definition very well.


Conditions Under Which Assessment Supports Students’ Learning
GRAHAM GIBBS & CLAIRE SIMPSON
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/c8c7/6f07ce1b8dae886179ef3e5740ff43aec412.pdf?_ga=2.91336159.454963263.1593993688-199027084.1593993688
Very comprehensive article. Well worth reading.


Formative Assessment Examples of Practice
https://www.ccsso.org/sites/default/files/2017-12/Formative_Assessment_Examples_2008.pdf
Very Good Article

Shows examples of what is and what is not.


Wikipedia’s Formative Assessment Page
Great place to start from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formative_assessment

The Concept of Formative Assessment
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1118&context=pare
By Carol Boston


Attributes of Effective Formative Assessment
https://ccsso.org/sites/default/files/2017-12/Attributes_of_Effective_2008.pdf
Council of Chief State School Officers’ (CCSSO)


The Quest for Quality (8 pages)
Educational Leadership
http://www.ascd.org/ASCD/pdf/journals/ed_lead/el200911_chappuis.pdf
This article teaches how to find a balance and successfully estimate student achievement.


Formative Assessment: revisiting the territory (8 pages)
D. Royce Sadler
https://www.ualberta.ca/centre-for-teaching-and-learning/media-library/symposium/less-teaching-more-learning-2009/royce-sadler/articles/symposiumltmlroyce-sadlerformative-assessment-revisiting-the-territory.pdf
Formative assessment is “intended to provide feedback on learning performance to improve and accelerate learning”.

Linking Formative Assessment to
Scaffolding
http://learnline.cdu.edu.au/commonunits/documents/Scaffolding%20and%20formative%20assessment.pdf


The Validity of Formative Assessments
By Terry Crooks
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/educol/documents/00001862.htm


Assessment for Learning
Formative Assessment
CERI
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/19/31/40600533.pdf