Formative assessment
Assessment used throughout teaching of a lesson and/or unit to gauge students’ understanding and inform and guide teaching
What is formative assessment?
Evaluation at the conclusion of a unit or units of instruction or an activity or plan to determine or judge student skills knowledge or effectiveness of a plan or activity
What is a summative assessment?
Everybody in mrs.bakers class is taking the EOC at the end of the year.
What is an example of summative assessment?
A technique to examine students’ collective abilities via real-world challenges that require them to apply their relevant skills and knowledge
What is authentic assessment?
Assessment tool to help students understand the teacher’s expectations for the assignments
Examples: projects, or a paper
What is a rubric?
Homework, knowledge checks, tickets out the door, and/or review games
what are examples of formative assessments?
Standardized tests, book reports, portfolios, and/or exams.
what are examples of a summative assessment?
Mrs.Brown has her students take a silent classroom poll at the end of every lesson they learn each day to gauge their understanding of the topic covered.
What is an example of formative assessment?
Journals, interviews, essays, performance tasks, and portfolios
What is an example of authentic assessment?
A collection of documents/videos/interviews/artistic pieces, etc. that SHOW mastery standards
What is a portfolio?
Evaluating student learning, data provided, to improve education, and teacher evaluations
What are the purposes of a formative assessment?
To measure student competency, to track progress over time, and used to judge success of academic progress
What are the purposes of a summative assessment?
Mrs. Namen gives her students a piece of paper everyday before they leave out of the door and they have to answer the three questions on it before leaving class.
What is an example of formative assessment?
Students must prove mastery
What is the purpose of authentic assessment?
Refers to a measurement of reading abilities that is based on the Lexie Framework for Reading
What is a Lexile score?
Methods used to gain information about student learning
What is assessment?
Students in rows taking the ACT or SAT
What is norm-referenced Tests?
Mr.Zalen has his students design and build wind instruments from metal pipes then perform a piece of music for that instrument.
What is an example of authentic assessment?
Alternative assessment or performance based assessment
What is another name for authentic assessment?
Given at the beginning of a unit of study or course of study to see what students already know
What is diagnostic assessment?
In a formative assessment information is used to practice, reteach, and to learn next
what are things an individual student needs?
Students taking The EOCT (end of course test),EOC (milestones),CRCT (criterion- referenced competency test) Or GHSGT (teacher test)
What is criterion-referenced Tests?
Mr. Kinnin has his students take a test every 4 weeks to see how much they know at the end of every unit.
What is an example of a summative assessment?
Designing a nutritious and attractive lunch menu for the cafeteria within a specified budget
What is a scenario of an authentic assessment?
Grading practices that impede student achievement such as the use of zeros, average and other practices that discourage effort
What is toxic grading?