Assessments

1. Formative

1.1. Definition: is 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.

1.1.1. Examples: Exit Tickets, Thumbs up/Thumbs Down

2. Summative

2.1. Definition: evaluate student learning at the end of an instructional unit

2.1.1. Examples: District Assessment, STAAR

3. Performance

3.1. Definition: form of testing that requires students to perform a task rather than select an answer from a ready-made list.

3.1.1. Examples: Portfolio, Skit

4. Diagnostic

4.1. Definition: allows a teacher to determine students' individual strengths, weaknesses, knowledge, and skills prior to instruction. It is primarily used to diagnose student difficulties and to guide lesson and curriculum planning.

4.1.1. Examples: MAP Testing, Prodigy

5. Interim/Benchmark

5.1. Definition: short tests administered throughout the school year that give teachers immediate feedback on how students are meeting academic standards.

5.1.1. Examples: STAAR Benchmark,

6. Assessment Data

6.1. Scores for lesson 7.5: Grouping Symbols. Student 1: 34/100, Student 2: 48/100, Student 3: 52/100, Strategies that you can use: pull the students during intervention, work one on one with each one during free/independent time

7. H.O.T Questions

7.1. Opening Questions

7.1.1. 1. What do you think we use decimals for?

7.1.2. 2. Why would we need to know how to divide decimals?

7.2. Guiding Questions

7.2.1. 1. Why do we have different parts in a division problem?

7.2.2. 2. How did you know that this was important information?

7.3. Closing Questions

7.3.1. 1. How can you apply this situation to real life?

7.3.2. 2. Describe why we need to know how to dives decimals now that we have talked and learned about it.