1. Formative
1.1. Formative assessments are more informal and occur during lessons or units. These assessments are not used to evaluate but rather adjust instruction to meet the updated needs of students.
1.1.1. EX: Exit tickets
1.1.2. EX: Questioning during a lesson
2. Summative
2.1. Summative assessments are given at the end of a unit or grading period to summarize and evaluate the knowledge of each student.
2.1.1. EX: STAAR
2.1.2. EX: Map testing
3. Performance
3.1. Performance Assessments have students apply an integration of content knowledge, skills, and real life application to create a product. This can be a graph, a presentation, or a portfolio to represent their integration of skills. Assessment grades are assigned through a checklist system - the checklist labels each skill that was expected to be
3.1.1. EX: Student portfolio
3.1.2. EX: Student creating a graph based on their own data.
4. Data
4.1. Student
4.1.1. Assessment Score: 33
4.2. Student
4.2.1. Assessment Score: 60
4.3. Student
4.3.1. Assessment Score: 47
4.4. Strategies: Assessments can be "chunked" for these students to allow shorter time frames of testing and breaks in between sessions. Further, these students should be constantly formatively assessed such as through exit tickets and questioning. These students can receive more time at the teacher table - this allows for more instruction and the opportunity for extended questioning.
5. H.O.T. Questions
5.1. Opening
5.1.1. Why do we put the greatest number on the right?
5.1.2. What would happen if I added 255 on this hash mark?
5.2. Guiding
5.2.1. Can you explain how you got there?
5.2.2. Okay, let's try again. What do we know? How can you show that on your number line?
5.3. Closing
5.3.1. Let's remember what we just learned. What pattern was on our number line? How did you discover that?
6. Diagnostic
6.1. Diagnostic assessments are used to diagnose or determine the needs of students prior to beginning a concept. Often, these are pre-tests.
6.1.1. EX: Having students take the unit test prior to teaching.
6.1.2. EX: Spelling pre-testss
7. Interim/Benchmark
7.1. Interim assessments are used to evaluate a student's progress so far, rather than at the end like summative. These assessments are used to adjust instruction if needed, but also they are a predictor of how students are likely to perform on summative assessments.
7.1.1. EX: Benchmark assessments prior to STAAR
7.1.2. EX: Monthly comprehensive math assessment