Daily observation of students is a practice that will become a habit over time. In order for formative evaluation to be more effective, students should receive immediate feedback regarding their work. If short quizzes are given they should be corrected whenever possible by the students. Knowing the correct responses immediately after doing the quiz helps the students to retain and understand the information and also to know where they went wrong. There are a number of ways that students can become involved in the evaluation process.
Students can help in setting the criteria for the unit project.
They can also be responsible for periodic self-evaluation and reflection on how they have done during class. It takes practice for students to look at themselves objectively and reflect on their attitude, behaviour, motivation, and learning. If students are doing a listening comprehension exercise and are to write down some specific information, it is the message which would be evaluated rather than the correct spelling of the words. In this case, spelling would be a factor. If students are being evaluated in writing on a discrete grammar point such as the imperative, correct spelling would again be a factor.