Formative Learning
What is formative learning?
Formative learning refers to learning that happens through ongoing feedback and practice, not just feedback when you're tested at the end.
Summative assessment uses a single exam (e.g. SATs, GCSEs) to see what a child has learned. Summative assessments do not help the child improve along the way.
Formative assessment involves continuous feedback - identifying gaps in knowledge as they appear and adjusts the learning to address them.
BOFA uses formative learning to help improve children's understanding and prepare children for exams.
BOFA is a formative learning process Test-Teach-Retest, it provides:
- An Initial Test
- Explanations and practice questions in the Practice Stage
- A Retest
- A printable report
To understand the formative learning process take a demo test.
- Try to get a few questions wrong initially so that you see the full process.
- Next, answer all the practice questions (hopefully correct!).
- You will then do the retest, but again answer some questions incorrectly.
- Finally, you will see the report with the incorrect retest questions sorted by topic.