Assessments
Formative
Summative
Diagnostic
Interim-Benchmark
Performance
Definition: evaluates student learning at the end of a chapter or unit / high stakes
Definition: monitors student learning and allows for adjustment / low stakes
Definition: evaluates where students are in the learning process
Definition: pre-test that measures strengths, weaknesses and knowledge
Examples: Chapter Test, Essay, Project
Definition: requires a the performance of a task and measures application of knowledge
Examples: portfolios, analysis essays
Examples: Running Records, KWL Charts
Examples: End of term, mid-terms, end of chapter or unit exams
Examples: Exit tickets, polls
Questions: 1.Can you list the parts of a setting? 2. How would you feel if you spent the night outside? What would make it better? Worse?
Questions: 1.Looking at the cover, what do you think this book might be about? 2.Describe what you think the illustration on the front cover is telling us.
Questions: 1. How would you act if you were the main character? 2.Make the sounds that you think you'd hear if you spent the night outside.
Questions: 1. What time of day do you think it is? Why do you think that? 2. Where is it that the main character is going?
Questions: 1. How do the illustrations help us describe the setting? 2. What should they wear here?