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Assessments 
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Formative: Formative assessments are used to observe student learning throughout the course of a year, unit, or lesson. They are usually not graded. These types of assessments are important because they help teachers know how well students are comprehending the material and where teaching strategies can be improved.
Pre-assessment: Given at the beginning of a new school year or unit. This type of assessment is useful for revealing how much students know and don't know. The results can be valuable for helping teachers plan a unit or school year.
Example - At the beginning of my year I asked my students to fill out a short survey asking basic questions such as favorite subject, one interesting fact about me, goals for this year. Doing this allowed me to get a snapshot of the different interests, goals, and articulateness of my students.
Example 2 - At the beginning of a new unit on parts of speech, I simply asked my students questions like: 'What is a noun?' 'Can someone give me an example of a verb?' Their answers gave me an idea of where to begin teaching.
Ongoing assessment: These take place throughout a school year, unit, or lesson. They are useful for determining how much the students are learning and how effective the instruction is. It can be formal or informal.
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Performance Assessment
Definition:
A performance assessment involves applying and showing skills and knowledge through various performance tasks.
Purpose:
- improve students learning experience
- evaluate the effectiveness of lesson plan
- measure how well can students apply their skills, abilities, knowledge to authentic problems.
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One reason we need to use performance assessment is that we have to help our students prepare for the career. Obviously, multiple choice and short answers are not enough. Performance is more important.
Examples:
- Presentation
- Portfolio
- Debates
- Performances
- Progress Report
- Developmental Checklists
Ipsative Assessments
What is ipsative assessment?
Ipsative assessments are one of the types of assessment as learning that compares previous results with a second try, motivating students to set goals and improve their skills.
How can we use ipsative assessment?
You can insert the assessments in:
-Portfolios
-PBLlearning
-A two-stage testing process
Why we need ipsative assessment?
When it was used with higher education distance learners, it helped motivate students and encouraged them to act on feedback to improve their grades.
**Norm-referenced assessments
What is norm-referenced assessment?
Norm-referenced assessment refers to an assessment that ranks students on a “bell curve” to determine the highest and lowest performing students. This method is used to understand how students' scores compare to a predefined population with similar experience.
For/Of/As
Assessment for Learning: These assessments let students know what they need to do to improve. Usually Formative.
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Assessment as Learning: Self-assessment. Students set their own learning goals and monitor their progress along the way.
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Assessment of learning: Usually given at the end of a unit or term to measure what students have learned. Generally grade-based and summative.
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Diagnostic Assessment:
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DRA Reading Assessment Levels
Done throughout the year, but used in the beginning month of the school year to demonstrate possible improvement.
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Self Assessments at the beginning of the year helps students identify strengths and weaknesses before setting goals.
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Summative:
The goal of summative assessment is to evaluate student learning at the end of an instructional unit by comparing it against some standard or benchmark. Summative assessments are often high stakes, which means that they have a high point value.
Examples: End-of-term or midterm exams. Cumulative work over an extended period such as a final project or creative portfolio. End-of-unit or chapter tests. Standardised tests that demonstrate school accountability are used for pupil admissions; SATs, GCSEs and A-Levels.
The Importance of Summative Assessments:
They provide an essential benchmark to check the progress of students, institutions and the educational program of the country as a whole.
Summative assessment contributes largely towards improving the curriculum and overall curriculum planning.
When summative assessment data indicates gaps across the board between student knowledge and learning targets, schools may turn to improved curriculum planning and new learning criteria to assess and improve their school attainment levels.
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