What are assessments and what do they measure?

What are assessments and what do they measure?

1. Traditional Assessments

   • Standardized tests
     • This assessment gives indirect evidence
       • multiple choice
       • True/False
   • Teacher Created
     • Teacher structured (Chapter/ Unit Test
       • Recall memorized information

2. Authentic Assessment

   • Meaningful Tasks in the real world
     • Team Projects
       • Retelling Stories
         • Debating
           • Brainstorming
   • Performing a task
     • What do you want students to know and be able to do? (This will be the standard)
       • Use a rubric to clearly convey expectations

3. Portfolios

   • Growth Portfolio
     • To show growth or change over time
       • early and later work to compare
     • Develop process skills
       • samples with reflective growth and process skills
     • Identify strengths and weaknesses
       • reflections of strengths and weaknesses
     • to track development of one of more products or performances
       • drafts of specific product or performances to be tracked
   • Showcase Portfolio
     • Student sample for employment use
       • Cover letter, sample work, description
     • showcase students best work
       • samples of students best work
     • Showcase of student's favorite work
       • students favorite/best/most important work, list of strengths/ weaknesses of work
     • to communicate a student's current apptitude
       • match of work with standard accomplished
   • Evaluation Portfolio
     • documenting progress toward standards
       • list of student goal, rubrics of how you plan to achieve goals
     • Allows the traking of achievement
       • test score, rubrics, samples of work
     • Placing students approprietly
       • Sample of current work, sample of earlier work to show progress

4. Rubrics

   • Scale used to assess student performance
     • Allows for better feedback between the student and teacher
   • task specific set of criteria
     • clearer expectations for students

5. Initial Assessments

   • Clear, accurate, and relevant picture of what a student has retained
     • What does the student need to learn
     • Where does the student need improvement
   • Establishes a students "starting" point
     • What has the student already achieved
     • What is the student's learning style

6. Ongoing Assessments

   • Continuous feedback on the effectiveness of instruction
     • Is the information being retained
     • Allows teacher to adapt instruction
   • Shows what students are understanding
   • Types include but aren't limited to: Exit slip. quiz, discussion, chapter/unit test

7. Performance Based Assessment

   • Application of knowledge
     • Demonstrate skills and concepts
   • Does the student know the information and can they use it

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