Assessments

Formative

Summative

Performance

Diagnostic

Interim/Benchmark

Homework: Teachers can occasionally give their students a take-home assignment to complete on their own.The grades from this will determine whether the students understand the material or not.

Class Discussion: Teachers can initiate and facilitate a class discussion over the day's topic. During this lesson, the teacher can bring up key terms, people, dates, events, and more in order to check student understanding.

Definition: Formative assessment is the process of evaluating student progress and altering instruction based on the results.

Benchmark Test: Teachers can administer a test that has a very similar structure to the students' STAAR test every two or three months to determine the students' chances of passing the actual STAAR test.

Benchmark Essay: Teachers can assign a writing assignment over major topics that will appear on the STAAR test every two or three months to determine the students' chances of succeeding on the actual STAAR test.

Definition: Benchmark assessments are used to determine where students are in the learning process and decide if they are on track to succeed on future assessments. These assessments are given periodically.

Standardized Testing: Standardized tests like the STAAR tests collect information on what students have learned over the school year.

Final Exams: Final exams can be used to see what knowledge students have gained and retained over the course of the school year.

Definition: Summative assessments are used to assess what students have learned at the end of an instructional period.

Project: A teacher can assign a project with specific requirements, allowing students to showcase their knowledge in a different, authentic way.

Organized Debate: A teacher can organize a debate to help students understand argumentative essays. This way, students can have a hands-on approach to gathering resources, organizing points, and delivering arguments.

Definition: Performance assessments require students to perform a task rather than answer test questions.

KWL Chart: Teachers can distribute KWL charts to collect information on what students know, want to know, and want to learn.

Pre-Tests: Teachers can administer pre-tests to see how much of the upcoming unit students already know.

Definition: Diagnostic assessments are used to determine where students fall prior to a course or lesson.

H.O.T. Questions

Guiding Questions

Closing Questions

Opening Questions

What can you infer from this chart?

What is data?

Describe the process of finding the mean, or average, of a set of data.

What does a bimodal set of data tell you?

In what instances should you use the mean over the median?

Create a set of data in which the mean, median, and mode are all the same. Do not simply repeat one value.

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staar

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