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Types of Assessments (Performance Based (Measures students ability to…
Types of Assessments
Performance Based
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Assessment of FOR and OF as it is ongoing, and it is also a comprehensive alternative to a summative assessment.
Example: Students count the number of cars going through intersection near school, at various times of the day and send data collected to local Police Department.
Strengths and weaknesses: It has a high level of validity where students can demonstrate their learning and is unique to the learner. It is limited by subjective scoring and requires a lot of time to score items.
Summative
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Example: Benchmark test, chapter test, unit test.
Strengths and limitations: Provides motivation for students to study and pay attention. It's limitations are that teachers teach to the test and it is not an accurate reflection of learning. Causes a lot of anxiety and advanced students don't always do so well.
Assessment of learning as it is at the end of an instructional period to compare against a standard.
Portfolio
Portfolio assessments are collections of student activities, accomplishments and achievements to show growth over time.
Strengths and weaknesses: It is an ongoing learning experience and provides an overall picture of progress, requires student-teacher collaboration. It's limitations are that it may increase student anxiety to generate quality output, and it is time consuming with subjective scoring.
Can be both OF and FOR learning as it is ongoing and shows overall learning at end of instructional period.
Example: collection of writing assignments to see how students progressed from writing sentences, to paragraphs, to reports, as well as the content and handwriting improvement.
Diagnostic
Diagnostic assessments are assessments for learning because they involve using evidence gathered to guide instruction. Before teaching, we must determine where the students are at, so diagnostic assessments are a great way to start.
Example for 3rd grade: Students take a pretest for a repeated addition related to multiplication to see what skills they already have.
Advantages: Allows teachers to provide meaningful instruction. This allows the teacher to work with small groups to individualize instruction for remediation or enrichment. Disadvantages: Teachers could be incorrect when making inferences on a child's ability. Tests may not always be accurate to what the child really knows, especially multiple choice tests.
Definition and purpose: A pre-assessment to determine what the students' strengths, weaknesses, and background knowledge are. It is used to guide instruction and determine what students' difficulties are.
Formative
Formative assessments are assessments for learning as they are ongoing and help guide instruction throughout the learning process.
Example: Think-Pair-Share is a great way to involve collaboration among peers and ensure everyone participates. This helps determine what the students understand about a topic based on their verbal response.
Strengths and weaknesses: Formative assessments are great for teachers to see if students are understanding the content and determine if there are any areas that need to be retaught a different way. Unfortunately some teachers feel like there is no time to implement them, which hurts students when they take their summative assessments.
They are quick assessments that help a teacher see what students have learned or still need more guidance on. They require feedback and are not to be graded.
Self-Assessment
Example: Students self assess their explanatory report on a famous explorer they researched about using the scoring rubric.
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High Stakes
These assessments have high-impact outcomes where passing tests allows students to enter into another grade or permission to graduate. Students futures and school funding rely on these standardized test scores.
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Peer Assessment
Strengths and weaknesses: Knowing that peers assess student work may motivate students to work harder and perform better. Unfortunately, the value of feedback received may not be constructive or helpful.
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