🔄 Continuous Feedback Loop
Formative assessment is a method that gives continuous feedback throughout the learning process, which helps the teachers to change their instruction and the students to keep track of their progress toward learning goals.
🧠 Memory Encoding Enhancement
A mnemonic is a memory device that is based on pattern, association, and chunking to change information into the formats that are easy to remember, which is up to the point of significantly increasing the retention and recall during assessing.
📊 Diagnostic Function
Formative assessments catch the errors in understanding and the knowledge gaps early, which allows applying the right methods to fix the concerns before the final evaluation, thus enhancing the learning process as a whole.
🔤 Mnemonic Strategies
Among common mnemonic techniques are acronyms, acrostics, rhymes, and the method of loci. These methods make use of the existing mental structures to ease access to the information.
✅ Low-Stakes Testing
Formative assessments are mainly non-graded or low-stakes tests, which leads to a reduction in anxiety and at the same time fostering active engagement, self-reflection, and metacognitive awareness in students.
🎯 Meaningful Connection
Strong mnemonics are such that they make a significant and personalized connection to the content. This is also the case with formative assessment in that they strengthen the understanding acquired through the practice of recalling.
🔁 Assessment for Learning
Among the main purposes of formative assessment is the emphasis on learning improvement rather than performance measurement. Incorporating mnemonics not only helps students to acquire the content taught through these assessments but also to keep it in their long-term memory.