Assessment

1. Types of

1.1. Formative

1.1.1. Gathering evidence, providing feedback, and adjusting instruction for students.

1.1.2. Examples: discussion, quiz

1.2. Interim/Benchmarked

1.2.1. Evaluate where students are in their learning progress, and determine whether they are on track to performing well on future assessments

1.3. Summative

1.3.1. End of a large section/lesson

1.3.2. Examples: standardized, final exam, research project

1.4. Diagnostic

1.4.1. Provides a way for teachers to chart a course of action, or map out a route, using existing knowledge to build upon.

1.5. Performance

1.5.1. Individual or Group Projects

1.5.2. Portfolios

1.5.3. Student logs

1.5.4. Journals

2. Standards based

2.1. STAAR

2.1.1. District

2.2. TEKS

2.2.1. Standards

3. Definition

3.1. A process of gathering information in order to compile what students know, understand, and do with their knowledge and help improve it all.

4. Evaluation - uses data for judgments

5. Assessment - uses data for decisions

6. Question Types

6.1. Multiple choice

6.2. Matching, sequencing

6.3. True/False

6.4. Short answer

6.5. Short/long essay

7. Delivery Types

7.1. Paper and pencil

7.2. Online

7.3. Computer adaptive testing

8. Scoring Types

8.1. Human Scoring

8.2. Distributed scoring

8.3. Automated scoring

8.4. Rubric

8.5. Checklists