Best Formative Assessment Project 2022

Kindly Sponsored by Prodigy Learning

Project Summary

"Nurture is the next generation of feedback and assessment, simplifying formative feedback and assessment for schools; shifting from summative to formative. Nurture was born from the award-winning social enterprise company called jumpAgrade - which aimed to level the educational playing field for those from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds. When COVID-19 hit, jumpAgrade had proved beyond a doubt that its research backed framework for delivering powerful and timely formative feedback was effective and could be embedded in response to the pandemic. In its first year of operation, Nurture has worked with over 100 schools across Ireland, the UK and Italy.

Our five-step process is guided by our research backed framework. Our platform explicitly links learning objectives to the feedback, as this is the most effective way to move learning forward. In addition, we guide teachers through the provision of Task, Process and Self-regulated feedback. Finally, along the way we collect student confidence and link it to the student’s success. The teacher now has insights into their students’ confidence, knowledge attainment and can provide powerful feedback. Finally, we ensure students engage with the feedback by closing the feedback loop, this is achieved by withholding the grade behind a self-reflection."