Assessments
Formative
Performance
Summative
Diagnostic
Interim/Benchmark
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Definition: a formative assessment is a way to gather evidence to adjust your instruction for your students learning.
Graphic organizer: a concept or organizer will help show the students understanding.
Exit tickets: Google Forms allows for students to show learning through questions posted on a form.
Definition: Review and assess student learning through an end of the unit test or semester exam. Summative assessments are for grades.
SATs: the standardized state test gives students a score that will either have them accepted or not accepted into college. This is a major state exam.
End of Unit: after each unit, teachers give unit exams to see if the students are prepared for the big end of the year exam.
Definition: Benchmarks are an opportunity for students to be evaluated during their learning process to make sure they are reaching all standards.
Elementary: In elementary students are required to take benchmark assessments to pass to the next grade level. They evaluate how much they learned from the year.
Fixed: this type of assessment shows no differentiation. It provides the same questions, time, and same tasks for students to complete.
Definition: This type of assessment has students do a task rather than answering questions. It shows their skills and abilities for said topic.
Experiment: Students use their knowledge that they have learned and tools to complete a lab experiment that shows their skills on the topic.
Portfolio: Students create a big student portfolio to show what they have gained as a skill throughout the year. For example, an art student showing off their work through a portfolio.
Definition: this is a way for teachers to learn the strengths and weaknesses of the students in a certain topic.
Checklist: have students go through a series of different tasks and check off if the students know how to perform or do it. Helps keep every student organized.
Pre-test: a pre assessment allows for teachers to see what they know before they teach so they can adjust their instruction to fit the students needs.
HOT Questions
Guiding Questions
Closing Questions
Opening Questions
What is the difference between a chemical change and a physical change?
How would you describe the components of a chemical reaction?
If you have the same mass at the beginning and at the end of a chemical reaction, where did the mass go in the product stage?
How can you conclude that a chemical reaction occurred during this experiment?
What is a burning fire an example of? How did you figure this out?
Why would it be bad if we put a different amount of solution then the needed amount? What would be affected?
