PHS Formative Assessment Check

Why should I use formative assessment?

• to make decisions about current instruction
• to check for understanding of student learning
• to make decisions about future instruction
• all of the above

Why is formative assessment important? 

• It is used to guide instruction
• Adds a grade to the gradebook
• Tells teachers who their advanced learners are
• Shows administration evidence of teacher planning

Formative Assessments must be graded.

• True – Students and their parents want a grade for all work that is completed.
• False – FA are just a snapshot of student progression and used to edit instruction towards educational goal.

Formative assessment is assessment

• given prior to instruction

• used during instruction

• used for standards based grading

• given at the end of a unit

What is required for an assessment to be considered a formative assessment?

• A.  Data is reported
• B.  Data is used to influence instruction
• C.  Data changes curriculum mapping
• D.    A & C

Open ended activities can be a great way to differentiate and discover where each student's learning level is.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Formative assessment focuses on progress or growth.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Digital tools can be used to...

• create discussion
• evaluate student progress
• assess student learning
• All of the above

Formative Assessments may be preplanned or created “on the fly.”

• True – Questions and discussions can arise spontaneously and influence instruction.

• False – They must be preplanned questions in order to be considered FA.

Formative assessment tools can be formal or informal, digital or analog?

• TRUE

• FALSE