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Assessments
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Formative Assessments
Part of the instructional process; this type of assessment provides the information needed to adjust the teaching and learning while they are happening. Student involvement is necessary, needing students to be involved as assessors of their own learning and as resources to other students.
Example 1: Exit ticket - at the end of class, provide students with sticky notes that questions what a student learns by the end of the lesson.
Example 2: Quick-checks - questions all students understanding during instruction by giving a thumbs up/down. 
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Summative Assessments
Given periodically to determine what students know and don't know at a particular point in time; this type of assessment helps evaluate the effectiveness of programs, school improvement goals, alignment of curriculum, as well as student placement in particular programs.
Example 1: End-of-unit test - an assessment that tells teachers what skills students have learned or missed from a unit.
Example 2: Benchmark Assessments - helps identify students' academic strengths and weaknesses and use that information to guide future instruction, as well as support success on later summative and high-stakes tests.
Performance Assessments
Requires students to demonstrate skill and knowledge by producing a formal product or performance. This assessment could also be referred to as an Authentic assessment or Alternative assessment.
Example 1: Portfolios - a systematic collection of one's work that provides a way of documenting and evaluating growth happening in a classroom, different from that of standardized or written tests.
Example 2: Rubrics - scoring procedures that judge student performance, containing evaluative criteria and descriptions of the qualitative differences for the evaluative criteria. Teachers, when scoring, need to decide if performance will be scored holistically or on a criterion by criterion basis.
Diagnostic Assessments
A variety of assessment tasks that are used to determine students’ level of knowledge, skills, and understandings at the beginning of a course, grade level, unit and/or lesson. They test the students on what they already know. These tests allow the instructor to adjust the curriculum to meet the needs of the students.
Example 1: KWL Chart - write down what you know, what you want to know, then what you learned.
Example 2: Running Records - mainly a reading assessment that test's how a student uses reading strategies learned in class, as well as assessing a students reading level. .
A wide variety of methods or tools that educators use to evaluate, measure, and document the academic readiness, learning progress, skill acquisition, or educational needs of students.