The FAST Project

Welcome to the FAST 'legacy' website.

The Formative Assessment in Science Teaching (FAST) project was a three year project funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England that aimed to examine how students' formative assessment experiences affected their learning. It was a collaborative partnership between The Open University and Sheffield Hallam University. This project was part of Phase 4 Fund for the Development of Teaching and Learning (FDTL).

This website supersedes the previous website 'www.open.ac.ukscience/fdtl'. This FAST legacy website hosts all the outputs from the project including reports, papers, case studies, tools and other resources. The materials and resources are free for practitioners to use and adapt for their own use or as part of staff development activities; we just request that you acknowledge the FAST project as source.

The website is divided into 6 main sections:

• The FAST Project section provides information about the project;
• Commentary articles section provides an introduction to the major themes that emerged from the FAST project work;
• Case studies section provides links to the case studies which were  a major outcome of the project;
• Investigative tools section provides information and links to the tools generated by the FAST project to help practitioners evaluate and reform their practice;
• Resources section provides links to a range of useful resources developed as part of the FAST project or found to be useful by the Team;
• Contact us section provides links on up-to-date activities of the Team and how to contact us now that we have moved on from the FAST project.

We would welcome your feedback about the resources or this website; please email FAST-project@open.ac.uk