Formative Assessment

Short answer.
Why would teacher prefer to give students feedback rather than grades? 

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Short answer.
Describe what a learning progression is and how it benefits teachers. 

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Of the following, what should the key elements of effective formative assessment link to the most? 

• student grades
• student performance
• success criteria
• state standards

This type of formative assessment allows students to receive immediate feedback and helps teachers quickly collect data.

• Think-Pair-Share
• Digital tools
• Exit tickets
• Quizzes

What is the purpose of having learning goals? 

• to help create the success criteria
• for students and teacher to be clear on what needs to be learned
• for teachers to know what to assess students on
• all of the above

What strategy to create a success criteria would best benefit students that have unorganized thoughts? 

• Creating rubrics
• Questioning
• Using examples

This key element of formative assessment allows students to think about what and how they can improve their learning.

• Learning progressions
• Collaboration
• Self and peer assessment
• Descriptive feedback

What is INCORRECT about eliciting evidence of student thinking and learning? 

• There is one way to collect evidence,
• It’s used to learning is taking place constantly
• It’s important that evidence is taken throughout the lesson

Self-assessment is an opportunity for students to...

• compare their work with their peer’s work
• develop a success criteria
• think meta-cognitively of their learning and progress 
• collect evidence for teachers

Peer-assessments are...

• opportunities to review the work of a peer
• opportunities to only receive feedback
• opportunities to review and provide feedback of a peer’s work
• opportunities for peers to grade student work