My New Experiment in Formative Assessment! This year, I once again taught science to 11th graders, and the thought of trying something new crossed my mind. This time, it wasn't about teaching but about evaluation. As a teacher, we always think of a variety of ways to assess students' understanding of the topic. The basic principle of this experiment was to give students an opportunity to be judged based on their own choice of expression. Over my 10 years of teaching practice, I have observed that when a test is announced, a few happy faces eagerly step forward to prove their knowledge, while many others get nervous, imagining all the efforts required to learn the concepts, remember the terms, and reproduce them in an exam situation. That's why I decided to give my students an opportunity to express their knowledge and understanding of the topic in various ways of their choosing. My only concern was to test their understanding of the topic, use of correct terminologi...