Putting Fun into Formative Assessment When incorporated into classroom practice, formative assessment provides information needed to adjust teaching and learning while they are still happening. The process serves as practice for the student and a check for understanding during the learning process. It also guides teachers in making decisions about future instruction. In this session, we'll present four online tools teachers can use to make formative assessment easy and fun: Plickers, Flippity, Kahoot, and Socrative.