Type of Assessments
Formative Assessments
Encouraging Students to Improve
Research Says
100
This type of assessment is given at the end of the learning unit or class. These assessments include tests, papers and projects due midway or at the end of semesters.
What is a summative assessment?
100
Students give the instructor feedback before leaving for the day.
What is an exit ticket?
100
This theory postulates that much of human motivation can be explained as a function of two competing forces - the striving for success and the fear of failure.
What is drive theory?
100
Feedback from classroom assessments should give students a clear picture of their progress on learning goals and _____________________.
What is how they might improve?
200
This type of assessment is given during the learning while there is still time to make modifications to the teaching and learning activities. These assessments may include ungraded tests or surveys, polling, discussions, projects, and other activities.
What is a formative assessment?
200
A web-based audience response system that does not require clickers, instead students can use their cell phones or computers to answer questions.
What is Poll Everywhere?
200
These students tend to be discouraged by challenges because they anticipate the negative feelings that accompany failure.
What are failure-avoidant students?
200
Feedback on classroom assessments should ___________ students to improve.
What is encourage?
300
An example of this type of formative assessment is a weekly quiz where students receive prompt feedback and suggestions for improvement.
What is a formal formative assessment?
300
A web-based system that allows students to post sticky notes on a canvas.
What is Linoit?
300
These students tend to be encouraged by challenges because they anticipate the positive feelings that accompany success.
What are success-oriented students?
300
Classroom assessment should be _____________ in nature.
What is formative?
400
An example of this type of formative assessment could be an instructor asking the students a question every 15 minutes using Poll Everywhere to see if the students understand the material.
What is an informal formative assessment?
400
This is an audience response system that requires you to borrow clickers and a receiver from the IT department at our school.
What is Turning Point?
400
This theory postulates that the manner in which students explain or attribute failure and success encourages or discourages them.
What is the attribution theory?
400
Formative classroom assessments should be ____________.
What is frequent?
500
This output of formative assessments should be frequent, give students a clear picture of their progress and how they might improve, and provide encouragement.
What is sound feedback?
500
If a success-oriented student does poorly on a test, they will not be as discouraged as a failure-avoidant student because they have this strategy for improvement.
What is work harder? (or expend more effort)
500
Systematic use of classroom assessments, weekly or even more frequently, can have a strong ________ effect on student achievement.
What is positive?
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