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Assessments : - Coggle Diagram
Assessments :
Interim/Benchmark
Definition: Interim or Benchmark assessments are tests that are given throughout the year periodically to track student progress and compare results against a set of uniform standards. These are graded and can be used to affect student achievement, but it is also just as unlikely. They help teachers adjust instruction as well.
Weekly Spelling Tests: Tests given at the end of every week to check student spelling of relevant vocabulary.
District Assessments: These are assessments given at the end of each grading period and made to imitate the STAAR test.
Performance
Definition: Performance assessments are a way for students to demonstrate their learning and knowledge through an open-ended task that will produce individual results. The end result help show teachers the effectiveness of their lessons and materials.
Persuasive Article Analysis Presentation: Students find a persuasive article of their choosing that they then analyze to find different rhetorical devices. They will then present their found article and devices, and explain the effectiveness of each device in the article.
Make-Your-Grade Projects: A list of different activities is provided to the students that they will choose from to complete the assignment. Each activity will have a different point value, so they choose enough activities to get a 100.
Summative
Definition: Summative assessments are a way for teachers to evaluate the level of student learning at the end of a unit of study. These assessments must be graded, but have a low chance of affecting student improvement.
Research Essays: An essay where students use their knowledge and research skills to look into and write on a certain topic that has been covered in class.
EOC Exams: Exams given at the end of each semester that test student knowledge of what has been covered in that class over the semester.
H.O.T. Questions
Guiding Questions
How would you use your observational skills to tell that the boy was more than just a normal child in the story?
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Closing Questions
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How would you have acted if you were the man at the beginning of the story and just experienced that first interaction with the boy?
Can you create a new telling of the story so that the house does more of the foreshadowing than the boy's story?
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Diagnostic
Definition: Diagnostic assessments are meant to help teachers identify what their students know and are capable of doing. This helps teachers learn students' strengths and weaknesses and see how to better address certain needs.
Survey: Students can evaluate their own understanding of a subject for the teacher to view gauge their students' own understanding of their strengths and weaknesses.
Checklist: A collaborative evaluation done by students and teachers where they both score the individual student (each student evaluates themselves) with the end goal of analyzing the results to gauge student knowledge and skills.
Formative
Definition: Formative assessments are used to gather evidence of student learning and provide feedback that help the teacher adjust instruction to better help their students. Formative assessments do not have to be graded, and they offer a high chance of student improvement.
3x Summarization: Students write three different summaries: one each of 10-15 words, 30-50 words, and 75-100 words. The different lengths will have them think about how to share different details from the text and their importance.
Two Roses and a Thorn: Have students name two things they liked about the reading and then one thing that they have a question about.
