Four Quadrants Check for Understanding

Includes state and national tests:

• Interim/benchmark assessments

• Classroom formative assessments

• Accountability assessments

• Classroom grading

Individual student goal setting is involved.

• Interim/benchmark assessments

• Classroom formative assessments

• Accountability assessments

• Classroom grading

Shows unit-sized chunks of classroom learning when a unit is finished.

• Interim/benchmark assessments

• Classroom formative assessments

• Accountability assessments

• Classroom grading

Informs instructional planning but does not involve individual student goal setting.

• Interim/benchmark assessments

• Classroom formative assessments

• Accountability assessments

• Classroom grading

Type of assessment best positioned to inform student learning

• Interim/benchmark assessments

• Classroom formative assessments

• Accountability assessments

• Classroom grading

Often used at strategic checkpoints across classrooms in a grade level.

• Interim/benchmark assessments

• Classroom formative assessments

• Accountability assessments

• Classroom grading

Student self-assessment of progress toward a learning target.

• Interim/benchmark assessments

• Classroom formative assessments

• Accountability assessments

• Classroom grading

May be used to determine school accreditation.

• Interim/benchmark assessments

• Classroom formative assessments

• Accountability assessments

• Classroom grading