Assessments

Assessments For Learning :

Assessments AS Learning

Assessments OF Learning

Assessment OF Learning is a communal assessment that provides a statement or symbols to justify how well a student is learning,

Assessment AS Learning focuses on how students self-regulate their own learning, making difficult choices about how to utilize feedback and participating in classroom learning priorities.

Assessment FOR learning is a method in which learning and teaching provide feedback that is then used to enhance student learning. In this process, students take a big role in their learning, and therefore, gain trust in what they need to learn in school.

Diagnostic

Formative

Examples

Examples

Examples

Performative

Why Use it:

Why Use it:

Why Use it:

To assess topic knowledge at the end of a learning
period.

Helps teachers and students to "close the gap" between where a learner is at the start of assessment and where they want to grow in their education.

Types

Summative

Why Use It:

Examples

What is it?

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Why Use it

Why Use it

Examples: Link

Diagnostic assessment is used to collect data on what students already know about the topic. It's non-graded and do not determine whether the student moves to the next educational level

Unit Pretest

Checklists

Surveys and Questionnaires

Types

Informal Diagnostic Assessment

Standardized Diagnostic Assessment

A spontaneous assessment before a new learning experience begins. The teacher could ask some students to share what they know about the topic. The teacher could ask the students to complete a survey or KWL chart

Curriculum-based testing to determine a student’s knowledge level of a specific standard. Typically, standardized diagnostic assessments happen after the informal assessments.

Curriculum-based Measurements

KWL chart

Impromptu Quiz

Entry Slips

Understand students' strengths and weaknesses regarding a topic or a unit. This information helps teachers to make any required adjustments on the lesson plan.

Why use it?

Things to consider

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Examples

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An approach to educational assessment that requires students to directly demonstrate what they know and are able to do through open-ended tasks such as constructing an answer, producing a project, or performing an activity.

Performance assessments can allow students to demonstrate college and career readiness through a culminating assessment—such as a graduate capstone or senior portfolio defense.

Measures how well students can apply their knowledge, skills, and abilities.

Performance assessments can allow students to demonstrate college and career readiness through a culminating assessment.

An approach to educational assessment that requires students to directly demonstrate what they know and are able to do through open-ended tasks.

Stephen

Formative assessments are often used to:

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Graduate capstone

Debate

Performance

Presentations

Completing original research

Senior portfolio defense

Conducting a laboratory investigation

Developing an analysis in an essay

Composing a few sentences in an open-ended short response

Examples of how to include a performative assessment across curricula.

  • help students identify their strengths and weaknesses and target areas that need work
  • help faculty recognize where students are struggling and address problems immediately
  • to monitor student learning to provide ongoing feedback that can be used by instructors to improve their teaching and by students to improve their learning

Things to Consider

To use formative assessment successfully in the classroom,teachers need specific knowledge and skills.
Four basic elements of teacher knowledge are critical:
1) domain knowledge
2) pedagogical content knowledge
3) knowledge of students' previous learning
4) knowledge of assessment.

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  • Live multiple choice poll
  • Entrance/Exit tickets
  • Word Clouds
  • Questionnaires
  • Reflection Journals
  • Mindmaps
  • Mini Whiteboards
  • Body Language
  • Clickers

Ian

promotes self-efficacy, which includes pupils appraising their abilities and the possibility of success.

encourages students to take responsibility for their own learning

requires students to ask questions about their learning

involves teachers and students creating learning goals to encourage growth and development

provides ways for students to use formal and informal feedback and self-assessment to help them understand the next steps in learning

encourages peer assessment, self-assessment and reflection.

Ian

ipsative assessments
(link to examples https://www.formpl.us/blog/ipsative-assessment)

self-assessments
(link to sample templates https://www.plymouth.k12.in.us/formative/peer-self-assessments)

peer assessments
(link to sample templates https://www.plymouth.k12.in.us/formative/peer-self-assessments)

Alyssa

Diagnostic Assessment (as Pre-Assessment)

Formative Assessment

Summative Assessment

Norm-Referenced Assessment

Criterion-Referenced Assessment

Interim/Benchmark Assessment

To pre-assess topic knowledge
at the beginning of the learning period.

Tina

Exams

Portfolios

Final projects

Standardized tests

AKA Summative

Assessment of learning takes place after the learning has occurred - to determine if it did - and is used to:

plan future learning goals and pathways for students

provide evidence of achievement to the wider community, including parents, educators, the students themselves and outside groups

teachers can use syllabus outcomes within a standards framework, and related learning goals established at the beginning of a year, semester, term or unit of work.

Alyssa

Alyssa

An approach to teaching and learning that creates feedback which is then used to improve students' performance

Students become active in their learning- they should be able to 'think like a teacher' to improve their performance in summative tests and examinations

Formative Assessments

Diagnostic Assessments

Where is the learner now?

Where are they going?

How will they get there?

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Alyssa

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Tina

Example of the checklist I use: Link

KWL chart template: Link

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Examples of summative assessment include:


  • mid term or end term exams
  • unit test
  • standardized tests
  • final projects
  • formal essays, reports, or papers
  • senior recital
  • book reports
  • science projects
  • multimedia presentations
  • portfolios

Summative assessments are often used to:


  • evaluate student learning/understanding
  • determine student grades
  • reinforce learning objectives
  • hold teachers/schools accountable for teaching
  • show gaps in curriculum and instruction
  • assess needs for student sub groups
  • demonstrate evidence of learning for future placement

Ready to make your own?
Click here to read a how-to article that will guide you in developing summative assessments.