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Assessments
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Formative
Definition: Formal assessments are ways that teachers can gain insight into how well the students are understanding the material being presented. This insight can then be used to modify feedback to best accentuate student achievement. Little to no grade value typically assigned to these.
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Observation: Teacher observes students working on assigned material to gauge their current understanding.
Summative Assessment
Definition: Test given at the end of a unit, six weeks, or school year to measure student learning. Typically has a high grade value attached to it.
Midterm exam: As the name implies, a test given at the midpoint of the schoolyear in order to assess student knowledge over material covered form the beginning of the year until that point.
End of unit test: A test given at the end of a unit in a subject area to measure overall student comprehension of the material covered.
Interim/Benchmark
Definition: Assessments given to students to compare where students are, academically, to where they ideally should be in order to ensure their academic success for the year
STAAR: Standardized test given to all students in Texas to measure their overall academic knowledge in all core subject areas.
Chapter test: Assessment given at the end of a textbook chapter to ensure that students, overall, understand the material up to that point so they are successful in understanding upcoming chapters.
Performance
Definition: Students are expected to perform a task rather than take a more traditional test or quiz
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Collage: Students create a poster consisting of found or created pictures dealing with the subject material.
Diagnostic
Definition: Assessments given to students to gain an understanding of students' strengths, weaknesses, and misunderstandings prior to instruction to help inform upcoming instruction.
Pre-test: A 4th grade math teacher gives his students a small test at the beginning of the year over multiplication and division facts so that he knows whether or not he needs to spend time re-teaching basics before going forward with teaching new ways to use the information.
Surveys: Informal questionnaires given by the teacher to get a general gist of student understanding of the underlying content of an upcoming unit.
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