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Assessments - Coggle Diagram
Assessments
HOT Questions
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Guiding 1: What examples of symbolism can you find in Chapter 5 of "The Great Gatsby?" And what do you think they symbols represent?
Guiding 2: Based on Daisy and Jay's lack of honesty, what can you infer about the future of their relationship?
Closing 1: Choose a main character. What is one example of a time you would have made a different decision than they did? Why would you have done something different?
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Summative
Definition: Summative assessments are used to check student learning after an entire time period. It is a summary of student learning and skills attained after a (usually large) specified amount of time. Rather than being a snapshot like formative, they are the "big picture."
Example 2: An end of the unit research project and presentation that displays students' learning on the unit
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Formative
Definition: Formative assessments are a way for teachers to measure student learning, provide specific feedback, and inform their plans moving forward. The goal of formative assessment is to see what students still need practice on and what direction the teacher needs to take moving forward. They are like quick snap shots of student progress.
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Diagnostic
Definition: Diagnostic assessment is done before learning occurs to inform teachers of their students' strengths and least strengths. This is done to avoid spending too much time reteaching information that students fully grasped previously and spend more time reteaching areas they did not.
Example 1: The QRI-6 is a diagnostic assessment used to measure students' reading abilities. This is usually done early in elementary, but the concepts are used all throughout public school.
Example 2: Beginning of the year pretests inform teachers of what topics need to be covered first and the most in depth based on what students do and do not know.
Interim/Benchmark
Definition: Benchmarks are used as a formal formative assessment to see if students are on track, up to par with their peers, and inform learning for the next unit to promote student achievement.
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Example 2: District Cold Essays given each unit to measure students writing progress in accordance to STAAR guidelines
Performance
Definition: A performance assessment is a style of assessment that is hands on and active rather than filling in a bubble sheet or writing on lined paper. A performance assessment requires students to display their learning by performing a task.
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Example 2: Students are required to create, illustrate, and recite a piece of prose or poetry after a unit on the writing styles
