TY - JOUR AU - Swinbank, Elizabeth AU - Whitehouse, Mary AU - Millar, Robin PY - 2017/04/25 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Embedding Formative Assessment and Promoting Active Learning JF - Scientia in educatione JA - sciED VL - 8 IS - 0 SE - DO - 10.14712/18047106.752 UR - https://ojs.cuni.cz/scied/article/view/752 SP - AB - In this contribution we outline how the York Science project is using a ‘backward design’ approach to teaching science to students aged 11–14. We then present some examples of formative assessment tasks and show how simple selected-response questions can be modified to provide teachers with detailed information about students’ ideas. Finally we indicate how such tasks can help promote active learning. ER -