Types of Assessments
What type of assessment is planned, structured, and usually scored or standardized?
What is a formal assessment?
What type of assessment is used to quickly identify students who may be at risk and need additional support?
What is screening?
What type of assessment asks students to demonstrate their knowledge or skills through a meaningful or real-world task?
What is authentic assessment?
What term describes whether an assessment actually measures what it is intended to measure?
What is validity?
What acronym stands for Multi-Tiered System of Supports?
What is MTSS?
What type of assessment is less structured and can include observations, questioning, or discussions?
What is an informal assessment?
What type of assessment identifies a student's specific strengths, weaknesses, or areas of difficulty?
What is diagnostic assessment?
What type of assessment requires students to demonstrate what they know or can do by completing a task, creating something, presenting, or performing?
What is performance assessment?
What term describes how consistently and dependably an assessment produces results?
What is reliability?
What acronym stands for Response to Intervention?
What is RTI?
What type of assessment is used during instruction to check understanding and guide teaching?
What is formative assessment?
What type of assessment is given at specific points during the year to check progress toward standards or learning goals?
What is a benchmark/interim assessment
What type of assessment collects a student's work over time to show learning, progress, and growth?
What is portfolio assessment?
What type of assessment compares a student's performance to the performance of a group of students?
What is a norm-referenced assessment?
What tier provides high-quality core instruction and support to all students?
What is Tier 1?
What type of assessment is given after instruction to measure what students have learned?
What is summative assessment?
What type of assessment involves regularly checking a student's performance over time to see if they are making progress?
What is progress monitoring?
What type of assessment involves a teacher writing a brief record of a specific observation of a student's behavior, skill, or performance?
What is anecdotal assessment?
What type of assessment compares a student's performance to specific standards, skills, or criteria?
What is a criterion-referenced assessment?
What tier provides targeted additional intervention to students who need more support than core instruction provides?
What is Tier 2?
What type of assessment is being used when a teacher gives an exit ticket during a unit and uses the results to decide what needs to be retaught?
What is formative assessment?
What two assessment types would a teacher use when they first identify which students may be at risk and then determine exactly what skills those students are struggling with?
What are screening and diagnostic assessments?
What type of assessment is being used when a student demonstrates persuasive writing by writing a real letter to the principal asking for more recess?
What is authentic assessment?
A test is supposed to measure reading comprehension, but most of its questions actually measure students' math skills. What quality of the assessment is questionable?
What is validity?
What tier provides more intensive and individualized intervention when a student continues to struggle despite Tier 1 and Tier 2 support?
What is Tier 3?