ABSTRACT
This chapter provides leveled examples of embedding formative assessments into a specific differentiated instructional strategy called understanding-based learning. Understanding-based learning styles, according to Silver, Strong, and Perini (2007), focus on students’ abilities to use the processes of reasoning, analyzing, and presenting evidence to learn and also to show what they have learned. Strategies that capture these abilities include compare and contrast, reading for meaning, concept attainment, and problem-based learning.
