Assessments

1. 1) Formative

1.1. Assessing students comprehension/ understanding informally and using the data you gather to provide feedback or to tailor your instruction to fit the students needs.

1.1.1. Examples: exit ticket & think, pair, share.

2. 2) Summative

2.1. Takes place at the end of a unit to evaluate student performance and understanding abasing a standard. Summative assessments usually have high point value.

2.1.1. Examples: final exam or a research project

3. 5) Interim/Benchmark

3.1. Assessments that are set up periodically to measure a students achievement or progress towards the standards.

3.1.1. Examples: Fountas and Pinnell reading assessment, running records, test over all objectives taught recently.

4. 4) Performance

4.1. Requires a student to perform a certain task to show their mastery and process of completing a task instead of taking a written exam over the topic.

4.1.1. Examples: Counting to 100 out loud, creating a graph

5. 3) Diagnostic

5.1. A pre-assessment that lets a teacher see her students areas of strength and weaknesses before an instructional unit.

5.1.1. Examples: pretest or questionnaire

6. H.O.T.S Questions

6.1. Opening Questions

6.1.1. What do you think the main idea of this book is?

6.1.2. How is this similar to ___?

6.2. Guiding Questions

6.2.1. How can you connect this idea to ____?

6.2.2. How does the main character feel about ____?

6.3. Closing Questions

6.3.1. What conclusions can you draw from this text?

6.3.2. How would you solve ____ using what you learned?