If you’ve been teaching or serving as an administrator in schools, you have undoubtedly practiced formative assessment. According to ASCD, “Formative assessment delivers information during the instructional process, before the summative assessment. Both the teacher and the student use formative assessment results to make decisions about what actions to take to promote further learning.”
As someone who is using LDC mini-tasks and modules in your coursework, you know that LDC tasks help you scaffold instruction in a way that provides you with information about student learning and instructional effectiveness. With student work that results from both mini-tasks and modules you are in a good position to make those decisions and adjustments that “promote further learning.”