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Interim/
Benchmark
Assessment
Summative Assessment
Criterion/
Referenced
Assessment
Formative
Assessment
100
LAUSD's name for Interim/Benchmark exams
What are periodic assessments?
100
Cumulative Evaluations used to measure students growth after instruction
What is Summative Assessment?
100
Pre-test
How to teachers find out what students know before instruction begins?
100
The percentage of achievement gains by students whose teachers employ Formative Assessment
What is 15 to 25 percent?
200
Strategy where assessments drive the scope and sequence of instruction
What is Backward Planning?
200
High stakes assessment for schools and teachers everywhere, especially in LAUSD
What is state-mandated assessments?
200
A series of test questions with many answer choices
What is a multiple choice test
200
Formative Assessment can be formal and this
What is informal
300
Frequency for administering Benchmark Exams
What is every six or eight weeks?
300
Evaluates thinking skills such as analysis, synthesis, evaluation and interpretation of facts and ideas
What are performance assessments
300
These are designed to measure students knowledge of content
What are assessments?
300
Teachers and students must take this based on results for assessment to be truly formative. Can also be a way to describe a verb
What is action
400
Between formative and Summative assessments
When does a Benchmark/Interim Assessment happen?
400
A question, followed by 4 to 5 choices, one of them being correct
What is a multiple choice question?
400
Skill taught are expressed as ____________
What is an instructional objective?
400
Formative assessments help teachers respond to student weaknesses and this.
What is strengths?
500
The names of two periodic assessments LAUSD's Assessment center is not supporting in 2013-2014 for grades K-5
What are Language Arts and Mathematics Periodic Assessments?
500
Designed to provide immediate explicit feedback. Useful for helping the teacher and students during the learning process
What are Formative Assessments?
500
Where are criterion-referenced assessments used (country please)
What is American Classrooms?
500
The group that teachers must be careful to not leave on the sidelines in the formative assessment process is this.
What are students