Assessments
Formative
Interim/Benchmark
Summative
Performance
Diagnostic
Definition: Process of gathering student learning, by providing feedback and adjusting instruction to enhance achievement conducted by the teacher during instruction when a teacher checks for learning and understanding during instruction.
Ex. 1: Quiz 
Ex. 2: Strategic Questioning
Definition: Standard or set of standards, that is conducted at the end of a chunk of learning at the end of the semester or quarter. Short tests that can be used to rate performance or level of learning that can be given throughout the school year that can be used to meet individual needs.
Ex. 2: Quarter Exams
Definition: Summative Assessments are used to evaluate student learning of a defined instructional period. Summative Assessments are evaluative rather than diagnostic. Summative's can be recorded as scores rather than grades.
Ex.1: State mandated exams (STAAR) 
Ex. 2: End of the year /term exam
Definition: A form of testing where students perform a task rather than select answers from a pre-made test. Skills are measured through authentic activities, exercises or problems where they can show what they can do.
Ex. 1: Projects 
Ex. 2: Open ended or Extended Response
Definition: Is a form of diagnosing what a student does and doesn't know. Usually happens at the start of a new phase of education, like the start of a unit that will cover what the unit will consist of and serves as a guide to help teachers guide what and how they will teach it.
Ex. 1: DRA (Developmental Reading Assessment)
Ex. 2:IRI (Informal Reading Inventory)
Assesment Data 
Definition: Are a variety of forms of interactions such as homework, discussions, projects, standardized tests, quizzes and presentations that can be used to guide and align instruction based on student needs.
Ex. 1: Unit tests
Ex. 3:Discussion 
Assessments can be used for different purposes such as placement, evaluations, academic support from teachers and parents.
Is the wide or variety methods a teacher can use to measure readiness, skills, learning progress, acquisition, or needs of a student.
ELAR Kindergarten
3 Struggling Students: DRA (Developmental Reading Assessment) Student 1: DRA level aa-Below
Student 2: DRA level A-Below
Student 3: DRA level 1-Emergent
Student 1: 17/24 words
Student 2: 25/27 words
Student 3: 26/27 words
Strategies: Small group, Guided reading, leveled book lessons.
H.O.T Questions: 
Closing:
Opening:
Guiding:
Q2: What did you learn about the story?
Q3: Can you retell the story in your own words?
Q1: What was special about the story?
Q2: Does this story remind you of something?
Q3: What characters might be in this story?
Q1: What do you know about this story based on the cover?
Q2: What do you think will happen next?
Q3: What is the main character feeling?
Q1:How does the story make you feel?