Assessment Overview
Assessment for and as learning exists within a framework of three processes and five strategies that can be used collaboratively to support student learning.
What is the Formative Assessment Cycle?
The process of gathering information to determine what students know and can do for the purpose of planning instruction.
What is Assessment For Learning?
The 2010 document written about assessment, evaluation, and reporting in Ontario Schools.
What is Growing Success?
A summative task that ties together the overall expectations of a unit of subject.
What are culminating tasks?
Learning Goals & Success Criteria, Making Thinking & Learning Visible, Descriptive Feedback, Peer & Self Assessment, and Reflection and Goal Setting, are included in the primary purpose of assessment.
What are the Key Elements of Assessment?
This kind of assessment data provides us with a starting point to get to know our students.
What is diagnostic data?
Assessment can be diagnostic, formative, or summative in nature.
What is the Nature and Purpose of Assessment?
Allowing different assessment tasks for students depending on their level and individual needs.
What is differentiation?
Engaging students in a reflection of their own learning as part of summative assessment.
What is student reflection?
A similar template to "Two Stars and A Wish".
What is "Stars and Stairs"?
As assessment tool that evaluates student work based on a four-point scale.
What is a four-point rubric?
A strategy that guilds listening and speaking through structured text-based discussions.
What is "Save the Last Word"?
A record of feedback where students can identify areas needing improvement, set realistic goals, and create actionable plans.
What is a "Feedback Journal"?
The focus is on building students capacity to be their of assessors.
What is Assessment AS Learning?
Engaging in small group discussion with carefully planned questions will elicit evidence of student's prior knowledge and surface possible misconceptions.
What are Prior Knowledge Starter Questions?
Assessment occurs at the end of a period of learning.
What is Assessment OF Learning?