Assessment Types
A planned, standardized assessment, such as a state test.
What is Formal Assessment?
A quick assessment used to identify students who may need additional support.
What is Screening?
Measures a student's performance against a specific standard or set of criteria.
What is Criterion Referencing?
Students demonstrate what they know or can do by completing a task or creating something.
What is Performance Assessment?
A school-wide framework providing different levels of academic, behavioral, and other support based on student needs.
What is MTSS?
A less structured way of checking learning, such as observation or asking questions.
What is Informal Assessment?
An assessment used to find a student's specific strengths, weaknesses, or learning needs.
What is Diagnostic Assessment?
Regularly checking a student's progress to see if instruction or intervention is working.
What is Progress Monitoring?
A collection of a student's work used to show learning and growth over time.
What is Portfolio Assessment?
High-quality instruction and support provided to all students.
What is Tier 1?
An assessment used during learning to see what students understand and guide instruction.
What is Formative Assessment?
An assessment given at certain points during the year to check progress toward learning goals.
Assesses learning through meaningful, real world tasks.
What is Authentic Assessment?
Brief written notes documenting a student's behavior, performance, or learning.
What is Anecdotal Assessment?
Additional targeted support for students who need more help than Tier 1 provides.
What is Tier 2?
An assessment used after learning to measure what students learned.
What is Summative Assessment?
This compares a student's performance with the performance of a larger group of students.
What is Norm-Referencing?
These two qualities ask whether an assessment measures what it should and gives consistent results.
What is Validity & Reliability?
A process providing increasing levels of support based on student response.
What is RTI?
More intensive and individualized support for students with significant or persistent needs.
What is Tier 3?