Assessments
Formative
Summative
Diagnostic
Perofrmance
Interim/Benchmark
HOT Questions
Opening Questions
Guiding Questions
Closing Questions
Definition: Formative assessment is ongoing, low-stakes assessment during instructional time to monitor student learning, provide feedback, and to modify or adjust instruction.
Exit Tickets are a formative assessment tool that give teachers a way to assess how well students understand the material they are learning in class. They can serve a number of purposes: provide feedback to the teacher about the class; require the student to do some synthesis of the day's content; challenge the student with a question requiring some application of what was learned in the lesson.
Quizzes are a quick and informal assessment of student knowledge and level of comprehension regarding course material, providing teachers with insights into student progress and any existing knowledge gaps. 
Definition: Summative assessments evaluate student learning at the end of an instructional unit, are high stakes, assign grades, and compares results to a standard.
Midterm Exams are a way to evaluate students' understanding of the course content and main ideas. They often cover a larger amount of material that a end of unit test.
End of unit/chapter Test what students learned and did not learn. They are sometimes referred to as mastery monitoring or criterion referenced assessment. 
Definition: Interim/Benchmark evaluates student learning progress used to determine whether the students are on track to performing well on future assessments. The evaluate students against specific grade-level standards and learning goals
Question 1:What is this problem about?
Question 2: What problems have we/you solved that are similar to this one?
Question 1: Can you make a drawing or diagram to explain your thinking?
Question 2: Who has the same answer, but a different way to explain it?
Question 1: How does this (perimeter) relate to area?
Question 2: How do you know your solution is reasonable?
Definition: Diagnostic assessment is a form of pre-assessment that allows a teacher to determine students' individual strengths, weaknesses, knowledge, and skills prior to instruction. It can assess a learner's current knowledge base or current views on a topic/issue to be studied in the course. It is used to guide lesson and curriculum planning.
Definition: Performance assessment is a form of testing that requires students to perform a task rather than select an answer from a ready-made list and measures how well students apply their knowledge, skills, and abilities to authentic problems.
Unit Pre-test informs the teacher of what the students already know about a topic. It also informs students of what they will be learning in the upcoming unit.
Running Records assesses a students reading level
Benchmark Assessment. System (BAS) Level is a series of texts that can be used to identify a student's current reading level and progress along a gradient of text levels over time. It provides teachers with precise tools and texts to observe and quantify specific reading behaviors, and then interpret and use that data to plan meaningful instruction.
State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) show whether a student has mastered specific knowledge of a core subject at a certain grade level.
Research Projects require students to apply their knowledge and skills while completing the assigned task. They can be aligned with the higher levels of creativity, analysis, and synthesis. They can be concluded by giving a report or creating a poster, brochure, flyer, etc. 
Debates include skills such as research, media and argument literacy, reading comprehension, evidence evaluation, public speaking, and civic skills.