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Assessment by Mind Map: Assessment

1. (1) Facts about Assesments

1.1. - Assessment helps students learn, teachers improve instruction, administrators decide how to allocate resources, and policymakers evaluate the efficacy of education programs

1.2. Assessment is the shared process of gathering purposeful and systematic measurement for documentation, reflection, and improvement of both student learning and institutional practices.

1.3. There's different kinds of assessments: Formative, interim/benchmarked, Summative, Diagnotsic, and Performance

1.4. Assessments can often be confused with evaluations but they each have different purposes.

2. (4) Diagnostic Assesment

2.1. Includes basic measures of reading comprehension, writing, and mathematics using tests endorsed by the school or school district.

2.2. It assesses what the learner already knows and/or the nature of difficulties that the learner might have, which, if undiagnosed, might limit their engagement in new learning.

2.3. It is often used before teaching a lesson or when a problem arises.

3. (2) Formative Assessment

3.1. The process of gathering evidence of student learning

3.2. Provide Feedback

3.3. learning behaviors can be modified:

3.4. Informal Formative Assesment

3.4.1. ex. observations, questioning

3.5. Formal Formative Assessment

3.5.1. ex. quizzes, pre-assesments

4. (3) Summative Assessment

4.1. Ex: standardized testing, final exams, major cumulative projects, research projects, etc.

4.2. End of unit and/or end of school year

4.3. You want to make sure you prepare students by teaching students assessment taking skills, and consider test length,, format, and questions on test.