Assessments
H.O.T. Questions
Guiding
What text structure do we mostly see in this book?
Give me an example.
Opening
Why do you think the author chose this title?
Can I Touch Your Hair? What do you think this book is going to be about?
Closing
What was the authors message?
Interim/ Benchmark
Definition: An interim assessment is a test administered at different intervals during the school year to check students’ grasp on content and guide future instruction. They typically fall between formative and summative assessments during the school year.
Summative
Definition: Used to evaluate student learning, skill acquisition, and academic achievement at the conclusion of a defined instructional period—typically at the end of a project, unit, course, semester, program, or school year.
Diagnostic
Definiton: Form of pre-assessment that allows a teacher to determine students' individual strengths, weaknesses, knowledge, and skills prior to instruction.
Performance
Formative
Definition: A wide variety of methods that teachers use to conduct in-process evaluations of student comprehension, learning needs, and academic progress during a lesson, unit, or course.
Definition: a form of testing that requires students to perform a task rather than select an answer from a ready-made list.
Running Records: Assessing a student's reading level.
Pre-tests: To determine a student's readiness with the content that is going to be presented.
Exit Tickets: Check for understanding after a lesoon.
Kahoot: A game to check student's understanding after a lesson.
Final: Ending of semester test to check what the students learned.
Final Project: A creative way to have students display what they learned throughout the semester.
Definition: Given periodically throughout a school year to establish baseline achievement data and measure progress toward a standard or set of academic standards and goals.
Link-it-up: Students connect ideas and try to link together as many as they can.
Creating a map: Students will make a map to show their understanding.
STAAR: Students are tested to make sure they learned the required amount of information in their grade level.
NWEA: Testing at different points in the semester to check a students growth.
How can you take what you read today and apply it to your everyday life?
