Tools of Formative Assessment

FormativeFormative assessmentAssessment is the keyEzzaddin to success and plays an important role in medical education. With the abrupt transition to virtual education during the COVID-19Covid pandemic, students are compelledCompelled to assume a progressively more engaged role in their learning. This chapterChapter is composed of four sections. Section 1 will describe in detail the importance of formativeFormative assessmentAssessment in medical education and how we should modify it for the E-learning era. Section 2 will elaborate on the student engagement factor in maximizing the benefit of formativeFormative assessmentAssessment. The main bulk of the chapter will be described in Sect. 3 about creative formativeFormative assessmentAssessment ideas to use in e-learning. The reader will dive into the possibilities of using different digitalDigital tools for formativeFormative assessmentAssessment and how to modify classroomClassroom formativeFormative assessmentAssessment tools to suit e-learning. The last section will summarize the steps that are required to design successful formativeFormative assessmentAssessment activitiesActivities.