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Assessments (H.O.T. Questions (Opening Questions (Can you retell this math…
Assessments
H.O.T. Questions
Opening Questions
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What do you have to find out in order to solve this math problem? Can you think of a rule that might help?
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Formative
Formative assessments collect information and are normally occur during a lesson. This assessment checks for student academic needs, and for student content understanding/learning. The goal of formative assessment is to improve student learning and understanding while the learning is occurring and providing instruction adjustments as needed. Observation is an informal formative assessment, and quizzes are a formal formative assessment.
Examples
Teacher questioning and providing feedback to students at various points throughout a lesson in order to check for student content understanding.
The teacher may use items such as journal entries and exit tickets to assess student content knowledge and understanding .
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Summative
Helps to determine learning and content that students know at a particular point. This is normally at the end of a lesson, unit, or end of a school year.
Examples
Student portfolios, final projects, or papers that students work on over a period of time to be evaluated by an instructor normally at the conclusion of a school year.
State assessment testing or standardized tests are an example of a summative assessment that test multiple subjects such as math, reading, and science.
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Interim/Benchmark 
Interm/Benchmark assessments are the periodic testing that occurs throughout a school year. This may occur every 6-9 weeks and have very little (if any) student feedback.
Examples
One type of Benchmark assessment is a computer based assessment that is given to students on a computer in order to measure student progress toward an academic standard or academic goals.
Another example of this may be called a common assessment test that is a type of standardized test that assess concepts and helps teachers to identify content that student may be struggling with.
Performance
Performance assessments normally have students demonstrate the mastery of a skill by performing or producing a product that will be assessed for understanding.
Examples
One example of a performance assessment is a student building or constructing a model of an object in order to show content understanding and proficiency.
Giving a speech is another example of a performance based assessment that can show content understanding of a topic or subject. .
Diagnostic
Diagnostic assessments assist in measuring performance or an area of knowledge (typically one area) prior to beginning instruction. This typically helps an educator to measure student needs in order to plan for instruction or differentiated instruction.A diagnostic test can also be known as a pre screening assessment. Diagnostic tests are not graded, but used to plan instruction.
Examples
Observations of student work or analyzing behavior can be a type of diagnostic testing that is used to collect information for teachers in order to plan or modify instruction.
Commercial assessments and standardized tests can be used by teachers in order to plan for instruction. Another example of a type of diagnostic test used by teachers is I-Station testing used at the start of a school year for reading to measure student reading levels,