The document discusses formative assessment and its integration into curriculum. It provides background on formative assessment, describing how it originated in the 1960s-1980s and was further developed and promoted by researchers like Black and Wiliam in the late 1990s. The document also outlines five key characteristics of formative assessment, including clarifying learning intentions, eliciting evidence of learning, providing feedback, activating students as teachers for each other, and empowering student ownership. A variety of specific formative assessment strategies are presented for implementing these characteristics in the classroom.