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Types of Assessments - Coggle Diagram
Types of Assessments
Performance Assessment: "Show What You Know"
Examples: writing an essay or completing a research project, science labs
This type of assessment supports higher order thinking skills.
Students have to generate their own answers and content instead of selecting them from a list of options.
Performance assessments prepare students for life outside of school by mimicking scenarios they may encounter at work.
Careers are largely based on performance
How to Implement:
Provide sufficient time to plan and complete
Offer students guidance while they complete the meaningful tasks that are involved in this type of project.
Provide thorough feedback
Teach students the required material first
Create and distribute the rubric
Provide the freedom within the tasks to foster creativity.
Very rigorous, involves higher level thinking
Students have to apply, strategize, and create
Summative Assessment
Purpose: The degree of knowledge that students already know. Archiving mastered knowledge.
Conducted at the end of learning, usually graded.
Examples: projects, tests presentations
Planned before instruction
Formative Assessment
Used for gathering data and analysis, Evidence based research
Prepared before a unit begins. Typically not graded.
Determine: What do students already know? What are they missing?
Purpose: Set goal and adjust as needed
Examples: Classroom polls, 1 minute essays, doodle maps