Formative Assessment

What two Formative Assessments are engaging and targeted toward Middle School Social Studies students?

• Choice Exit Cards and Four Corners

• Choice Exit Cards and Constructed Response Questions

• Four Corners and Simon Says

• Simon Says and Constructed Response Questions

For any assessment to function formatively, the results have to be used to adjust _______________ and __________

• teaching attitude and mindsets

• student performance and study habits

• teacher's attitude and student performance

• teaching and learning

Which of the below is not a challenge with Formative Assessment?

• Accountability stress due to No Child Left Behind

• Teachers are not apt to use (several reasons

• Measuring achievement is not complicated

• High-achieving students improve at a lesser rate

Formative assessment is NOT

• for learning

• a process

• an instructional strategy

• a test

One reason for using creative strategies for FA in elementary classrooms is

• it is informative

• it increases engagement

• teachers have to use their imagination

• students must critically think about the answers

A formative assessment at the high school level is used at its best when it is?

• a list of words to define

• Big Picture questions

• around half the class period in length

• given at the very end of a unit

A misconception check as a formative assessment includes

• an example of what the student learned that day

• student opinions about a commonly held inaccurate idea

• a question written in response to a posted answer

• a list of what students didn't understand from that class period