Different Types of Assessments
Formative
Formative assessments are used early and often to gauge students' understanding of the material and to inform the teacher's instruction. They are often brief, informal and ungraded activities.
Summative Summative assessments are used towards the end of a learning segment to gauge student achievement. Students will apply all they have learned to complete a formal task.
Diagnostic Diagnostic assessment is used at the beginning of the instructional process. The goals are: (a) trying to determinate the initial students learning status and, (b) taking decisions to enhance the students learning instruction.
Performance Performance evaluation is the system that objectively and comprehensively measures students conduct, skills, performance and students approaches. This kind of assessment make focus in the process beyond that the result.
Types of Formative Assessments
Polling: Gauge how many students understand key concepts by asking questions with Poll Everywhere, Google Classroom or Kahoot.
Self Assessment: Provide students with a rubric and have them score themselves based on how well they believe they understand the material
Interview Assessment: Discuss the subject material with a student to gauge their understanding. Interviews can also be peer-to-peer and may include tools like Flipgrid or Seesaw
Misconception check: Present studies with a common misunderstanding to see if they can identify it as incorrect and explain why.
Types of Summative Assessments
Standardized Tests: These include SATs, A Levels, IBs and other large-scale tests developed outside the school that compare student achievement across schools and countries.
Unit Tests, Midterms and Finals: These tests are developed within the school and assess the cumulative learning of an entire learning segment. They often make up a significant portion of a student's grade
Projects: These assessments require students to apply their knowledge to a problem and create something novel. These include videos, experiments, artwork, prototypes, action plans, etc.
Types of Diagnostic Assessments
Motivations: Align students motivations with instructional methods. Use engagement as a strategy to organize contents. Determinate the students interests to create projects, special learning routes or special students learning groups. Determinate which contents could take more instructional time.
Students learning environment: Identify the learning students styles (visual, kinesthetic, auditory) to determinate the instructional method. Highlight the main resources to use in the instruction. Evaluate another useful assessments that we could integrate in the process. Create activities afterschool according with students learning environment.
Previous knowledge: Determinate instructional ways to integrate new knowledge with previous knowledge. Arrange the contents order. Align the instructional model with contents. Define the groups instruction according with their learning skills.
Types of Performance Assessment
Extended tasks: Students need to stay focus in a specific task that could take longer time. Projects, drawing, drafting or experiments, and then explaining the process and the results deeply.
Portfolios: Could be use to record the "best" experiences that students have had on the learning process. The portfolio may also include the works in process thorough the pictures, writings, examples, photos, digital resources, evidences or specific tasks.
Open-ended or extended response exercises: Teachers use more prompts requesting arguments, writing or orally responses about learning topic. Students could use particular positions or approaches to support one point of view.