Assessments: "Gathering, analyzing and interpreting information," about our students. (Gillet, T...

1. Formative

1.1. All students, often and periodically

1.2. Is my student understanding what I'm teaching?

1.3. In class assignments, homework assignments, can be informal

2. Interim

2.1. All students short and medium term

2.2. Did my student understand what I've been teaching over these weeks?

2.3. In class tests, projects held every few weeks

3. Summative

3.1. All students, at the end of a term

3.2. Have my students gras[ed the big picture, concepts and rules

3.3. End of year exams and projects

4. Screening

4.1. Whole class

4.2. Who needs extra attention?

4.3. Running Records

5. Diagnostic

5.1. Takes up where screening left off

5.2. Does this child need extra help? In what areas?

5.3. Early Reading Diagnostic Assessment

6. Outcomes based

6.1. All students

6.2. Has the year's learning standard been met?

6.3. Dibels

7. Monitoring

7.1. Struggling reader

7.2. How is the struggling reader coming along?

7.3. STAR test