Assessment
Types of Assessment
Formative
Interim or Benchmark
Summative
Diagnostic
Performance
Formative assessment is a type of assessment that allows the administrator to get feedback from the student and adjust instruction to improve results and student achievement.
Discussions - Quizzes - Bell Ringers - Exit Tickets
Used at the end of a period of learning to assess learning and has very specific criteria to ensure goals are clear and concise.
Beginning of Year Tests - Middle of Year Tests - End of Year Tests - Essay - Research Projects
Interim or Benchmark is a type of assessment that are administered periodically to ensure that learning is on track for upcoming assessments. They help keep students on track for long-term goals.
Final Exams - STAAR Test
Diagnostic assessment is a type of assessment that involves questioning, testing, or demonstration to help figure out how a student learns best, where their strengths are and weaknesses are, and can be used to help find strategies for learning. It is heavily focused on each individual's growth.
Primary Spelling Inventory - Where to Start Word Test - Running Record - Test of Early Mathematics Ability
Performance tests are a type of assessment that has a student engage in some activity rather than show knowledge through pen and paper. Requires students to respond to authentic situations.
Report - Experiment - Acting Performance
H.O.T Questions
Guiding
Opening
Closing
Based on the cover of this book, what do you think the story might be about?
If this book did not have a title, what would you name it?
Who all did Maria see when she was out?
In what order did she meet these people?
Where did they end their evening at?
How do you think Maria and her siblings felt when their parents scared them? How would you have felt?
the process of gathering information in many different ways to improve students' learning and how teachers present information.