Formative Assessment

I use formative assessment almost every day in my classroom.  In the morning, as part of my first grader's morning work, I have "clicker questions" ready for them when they arrive.  Usually these questions cover the math skills we learned on the previous day or from the chapter we are currently working on.  When they are finished, I save and print the results and quickly scan them to see who needs more individual attention with those skills.  I then determine my small groups based on the clicker question results and work with those students during my math lesson later that day.  The success I've experienced is how this type of assessment lends itself to setting up my small groups during our math center time, and it gives me the opportunity to easily and quickly see which students "get it" and which ones do not.  The main challenge I've had is using the teacher created flip charts for formative assessment.  I don't find this as helpful as creating the self-paced assessments with the clickers.  I guess I need to force myself to use the flip charts more often.