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# The Secret Sauce of Formative Assessment

## Details

**Authors** Ferlazzo L

**Year** 2014

**Publisher** Education Week

**Kind of work** press

**Discipline** Education

**Kind of engagement** press

[Read it](https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/opinion-response-the-secret-sauce-of-formative-assessment/2014/12)

## In authors' words

### What they set out to do (purpose)

An Education Week Classroom Q&A collecting four educators — Libby Woodfin, Tony Frontier, Laura Cabrera, and Alice Mercer — on what makes formative assessment work.

### What they found (results)

Assessment should be done with students rather than to them; Laura Cabrera's contribution grounds that in metacognitive awareness, spelling out making distinctions, organizing part-whole systems, recognizing relationships, and taking perspectives.

## Commentary

### In short

Coverage of the work in Education Week.

**Patterns it shows** D, S, R, P

**How to cite this** Ferlazzo L (2014). The Secret Sauce of Formative Assessment. Education Week.