TEFA

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Description

TEFA is a technology-enhanced formative-assessment pedagogy developed by Ian D. Beatty and colleagues that organizes classroom-response instruction around question-driven instruction, dialogical discourse, formative assessment, and meta-level communication.

Components

Claims

• Teachers reported that CRS-and-TEFA use gave them more information about student thinking and that they changed lessons in response to that formative information [+M]

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Key Sources

• Ian D. Beatty, Allan Feldman, William J. Leonard, William J. Gerace, Karen St. Cyr, Hyunju Lee, Robby Harris. (2008). Teacher Learning of Technology-Enhanced Formative Assessment. NARST 2008 conference paper. https://eric.ed.gov/?q=Teacher+Learning+of+Technology-Enhanced+Formative+Assessment

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