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Assessment by Mind Map: Assessment

1. Formative

1.1. Assessment Cycle

1.1.1. Gather Evidence

1.1.2. Evaluate Evidence

1.1.3. Give Feeback

1.1.4. Adjust Instruction

1.2. Occur frequently/ often and during instruction

1.2.1. Show of hands

1.2.2. Thumbs up, thumbs down

1.2.3. Popcorn

1.3. 6 types of formal formative

1.3.1. drills/ exercises

1.3.2. pretests

1.3.3. homework

1.3.4. classwork

1.3.5. quizzes & tests

1.3.6. Whole class responses

2. Performance

2.1. Journals

2.1.1. Show application in real world situations

2.2. Portfolios

2.2.1. Show/ track progress

2.3. Group projects

2.3.1. facilitated through collaboration

2.4. Student logs

2.4.1. Track work habits

2.5. Often multiple choice

2.6. Must demonstrate the knowledge or skill

3. Standards Based

3.1. State standards

3.2. STAAR tests

3.3. District approved

4. Summative

4.1. Planning for summative assessments

4.1.1. Comes at the end of large amounts of learning

4.1.2. Review what should be measured

4.1.3. Decide the criteria to be assessed

4.1.4. Includes finals, end of class projects and standardized tests

4.2. Teaching to the test or teaching what they need to know?

4.2.1. High stakes

4.2.2. Requires preparation

4.2.3. Must teach what students need to know which happens to be what is also tested.

4.2.4. Focus is on outcome/total/overall growth

5. Interim/Benchmark

5.1. Given throughout the year (every 6 weeks)

5.1.1. Allows for quicker skills intervention

5.2. Low stakes invovled

5.3. seldom feedback to students

5.4. Includes written assignments and projects

5.5. Focus on mastery

5.5.1. Clarifies the criteria

5.6. Instructional adjustments

5.6.1. alternative questioning

5.6.2. peer tutoring

5.6.3. differentiation