Assessments

1. Types of Assessments

1.1. Formative - has an explicit connection to an instructional unit consists of many kinds of strategies, and can be as informal as asking a well-crafted question helps educators guide the learning process rather than grade or evaluate student performance

1.1.1. Quizzes

1.2. Summative assessment - certifies learning. Generally, educators administer a summative assessment near the end of an instructional unit to help them answer the question, “What did students learn?

1.2.1. end-of-unit tests and end-of-course test

1.3. Interim assessment guides and tracks learning. A wide middle ground exists between teachers’ day-to-day formative assessment of student learning and the formal protocols of state summative assessment. This middle ground offers opportunities—captured under the umbrella term interim assessment—to gather information about many things that are relevant to the teaching and learning process.

1.3.1. individual and collective student growth

2. Definition assessments in a formative way to directly guide instruction

3. The purpose is for student individual academic growth by navigating instructions accordingly, efficiently and effectively