Assessments
Diagnostic
Summative
Benchmark
Performance
Formative assessments are the process of gathering student knowledge as they are learning it. Formative assessments should be used to adjust instruction.
Ex 1. Homework
Ex 2. Questioning
A summative assessment at the end of a unit, or chunk of learning.
Ex 1. Final exam
Ex 2. End of unit exam
A performance assessment is when students take the skills or knowledge they have learned and apply it to an authentic problem to create a product.
Ex 1. Portfolio
Ex 2. Creating a song - Students will create a song based on what they learned in the unit.
Benchmarks are used to measure student growth. The school I am working at gives a benchmark at the beginning of the year, middle of the year, and compare those scores to the students' STAAR test scores.
STAAR test
Ex 2. Check For Understanding assessment: I have seen these used in the Frenship district. They give these after each unit or chunk of learning to measure student learning. They use it to adjust instruction.
A diagnostic test is a pre-assessment given to students that usually breaks down each skill and shows teachers how the individual is doing on each domain.
Ex 1. KWL chart - This tells you what the student knows, wants to know, and then what they learned during the lesson.
Ex 2. Sight word list - This is used to help an educator find the reading level of a student. Students read out loud a word list while the teacher marks on their copy how the student performs.
H.O.T. Questions
Opening
What do you see on the cover of the book?
What are your predictions about what will happen in this book?
Guiding
How are Mama and Papa's character traits different?
What would you do if you were in the narrator's shoes?
Closing
What are your views on the racial issues after the bombing of Pearl Harbor?
How does the tone of the book change from the beginning to the end of the book?
