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Types of Assessments - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Advantages of formative assessments
        -Formative assessments are not graded nor do they typically receive a number score. Due to this, students feel less anxiety than other types of tests.
        
        Formative assessments help instructors for a student's future learning. They assist educators with identifying possible weaknesses that a student may have academically.
        
        Typically formative assessments provide students with relatively quick feedback
      - Resources: (https://content.wisestep.com/formative-evaluation-importance-advantages-disadvantages/)
        (https://www.cmu.edu/teaching/assessment/basics/formative-summative.html)
  - - - Examples of summative evaluations : -Final Exams, Mid term exams, chapter tests, nation wide standardized tests such as SATs or ACT
        
        Resources(https://resourced.prometheanworld.com/types-of-summative-formative-assessment/) Link Title (https://www.testofy.com/blog/2020/02/29/learning-about-the-benefits-of-summative-assessment-a-perpetual-balancing-act/)
        
        Advantages of summative assessment - Summative assessments are effective for gauging the effectiveness of teaching methods.They also can assist in future course placements.
        
        They are ideal for keeping records of academic achievement. These scores can be recorded in form of letter grades, test scores, or report cards.
        
        Can serve as motivation for students: Summative assessments focuses on obtaining a certain outcome. These types of assessments can motivate students to improve their scores in the future.
- - - - Examples
        - Making a diorama
        
        Creating a sculpture
        
        Writing an in class essay
        
        Performing a musical performance
        
        Resources ](https://howtodiscuss.com/t/performance-assessment-examples/102454) ((https://us.humankinetics.com/blogs/excerpt/learn-the-advantages-of-using-performance-based-assessments))
      - How to Develop a performance based assessment - Choose an objective of the assessment, what do you want to evaluate? You can select critical thinking. a written essay. or physical assessment such as a game or recital - Select an acceptable standard or rubric to use as guidelines for performance
        
        Review the assessment and check for any gaps in learning - Document your findings
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYyR14t59xo
        
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        This link above is to follow the worksheet for the performance assessment
- - - - Examples
        
        1- Words Their Way weekly choice board assignments and activities
        
        2- Fountas and Pinnel levelled literact interventions, independent student reading within and beyond their levels
        
        3- Math Student/ Teacher discussions, Mental Math at the beginning of lesson, Math Practice , multiplication fact sheets, workbook pages, class reviews,etc.
  - - - Assessment For Learning vs. Assessment Of Learning
        (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wvRJyTExVU)
    - - Examples
        
        1- Words Their Way end of term/year assessment, benchmark assessment
        
        2- Fountas and Pinnell end of term/year summative assessment. Student data is kept on file throughout their elementary school years.
        
        3- Math End of Unit Assessment, benchmark assessment
  - - - What is Assessment For Learning
        (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNPFwCbA_mE
    - - Examples
        
        1-Words Their Way Pre Assessment. Initial spelling test of benchmark grade level words. Used to determine spelling stage.
        
        2- Fountas and Pinnell Reading level formative assessment
        
        3- Math Unit 2 Formative Assessment:
        With this assessment, like most formative assessments, it involves commitment to the student and their learning journey. When teachers gather information through formative assessments, it's so the teacher can hone in on what is needed to help the students' learning process. The more understanding they get, especially in math fluency, the better they do on the summative assessment, and in turn, the better they do throughout their math journey.
        This assessment also makes use of educational technology, which engages students and can be a more efficient mode of assessment taking.
        This formative assessment also helps develop the students fluency skills in multiplication facts. It also gives the teacher the information needed to respond to their students’ needs.
- - - - Performance tasks; a multiple-choice test and this could be done on any educational platform such as Nearpod or a sheet given out to students
      - Student surveys
      - Journals
      - Group discussion about a certain new lesson topic to be able to assess students' knowledge about a certain topic, this will give the teacher an overview from where to start.
      - Reading quiz to assess students' Lexile reading level as well as their comprehension skills.
    - - Tools to be used for Diagnostic assessments
        
        Nearpod is an interactive classroom tool to engage students by adding interactive activities to your lessons like polls, collaboration boards, and game-based quizzes. Students can interact and submit responses through any mobile device or laptop.
        
        Jeopardy Labs is a website where users can create and customize their own jeopardy game templates for free. Instructors can use this tool to create jeopardy-style games for reviewing material with students during classes, which may be helpful before a test.
        
        Plickers is a rapid-response classroom-polling app that lets teachers use one mobile device to scan paper cards for student responses. Such Educational game app could allow the teacher to know the knowledge of students on a certain topic as it automatically calculates the results of each student.
      - Reading quiz to assess students' Lexile reading level as well as their comprehension skills.
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        example for this assessment (Informal)