Assessment

1. H.O.T. Questions

1.1. Opening Questions

1.1.1. What is the moral of the story?

1.1.2. What is important about the character in the story?

1.1.3. What is your character's main objective

1.2. Guiding Questions

1.2.1. What would happen if___?

1.2.2. How would you feel if_____?

1.2.3. What reason is there for the character to?

1.3. Closing Questions

1.3.1. Predict what the character will do next.

1.3.2. How would you compare the two characters?

1.3.3. Analyze how the character's feelings changed in the story.

2. Formative

2.1. a range of formal and informal assessment procedures conducted by teachers during the learning process in order to modify teaching and learning activities to improve student attainment.

2.1.1. Questioning, Exit tickets, Discussion

3. Interm/ Benchmark

3.1. Evaluate where students are in their learning process and determine whether they are on track to performing well of future assessments.

3.1.1. Benchmarks at the beginning and middle of the year, Like a performance task but use standardized administration and scoring procedures.

4. Summative

4.1. Used to evaluate student learning, skill, acquisition, and academic achievement at the conclusion of a defined instructional period.

4.1.1. End of unit tests, State- mandated assessments

5. Performance

5.1. Requires students to perform a task rather than select an answer from a ready-made list.

5.1.1. Group Projects, Portfolios

6. Diagnostic

6.1. Is a pre-assessment that allows a teacher to determine the students' individual strengths, weaknesses, knowledge, and skills prior to instruction.

6.1.1. Journal responses, Student made posters

7. Assessments are crucial to student learning. Assessments should mirror good instruction and they should happen continuously as part of instruction. Assessments would also provide information about the levels of understanding that students are reaching.

8. Assessments should be tailored to a specific purpose. Assessments should be reliable, valid, and fair so all children are assessed the same way.

9. Assessment Data

9.1. Teachers use this data to see how their students are progressing. This also helps the teacher see if the strategies that she has taught here students is benefiting them.