The Assessment with Feedback strategy requires teachers to frequently observe, assess, and monitor students’ progress towards mastery of the AKS, providing students with ongoing feedback on their progress, and adjusting instruction to increase student learning. Teachers and students should be jointly engaged in setting, reviewing, and monitoring progress towards mastery learning goals.

When using Assessment with Feedback, the teacher will implement frequent informal formative assessments as a part of the instructional cycle and provide timely, specific, and actionable feedback. The teacher will use assessment information to differentiate instruction and support student progress towards mastery of the AKS. Students act on feedback to demonstrate individual progress towards mastery of the AKS.

Assessment with Feedback does not take place in isolation, is not based on a student's grade, and is never purely summative. It is most effective when teacher and student are jointly engaged, with students receiving specific, timely, and actionable feedback on their progress and teachers using the information to be responsive to student learning to differentiate and personalize instruction.