During the time that we observed, he either had the students working on a handout, which he allowed the students to communicate, or had the students working on a story that they were writing about themselves. The handout would not be able to be considered a formative assessment because it was not just one students’ work. The student observed, majority of the time, copied off the work of the student next to him. However, it also wouldn’t be an informative, because, again, it is not the student’s work and it would be hard to judge if he understands the concept. Allowing students to work on a long term paper would count as part of an informative assessment. However, the student did not spend much of his time working on the assignment. Instead,