Types of Assessment.

What is assessment?

• Are used to determine students’ level of knowledge, skills, and understandings at the beginning of a course, grade level, unit and/or lesson.

• Used to measure what students have learned at the end of a defined period of instruction.

• It involves gathering and interpreting information about the level of student achievement of learning objectives.

• It’s used to have an identification of areas for improvement and to seek specific suggestions for improvement.

   

What is the importance of assessment?

• It’s used to have an identification of areas for improvement and to seek specific suggestions for improvement.

• These are used to identify each student's strengths and weaknesses so that educators can provide specialized academic support, educational programming or social services.

• is a variety of assessment tasks that are used to determine students’ level of knowledge, skills, and understandings at the beginning of a course, grade level, unit and/or lesson.

Assessment is a process that includes four basic components:

• 1- Measuring improvement over time.

  2- Motivating students to study.

  3- Evaluating the teaching methods.

  4- Ranking the students' capabilities in relation to the whole group evaluation.

• 1- Assessments

  2- Pre-tests

  3- Surveys

  4-Journals

• 1- Rubrics

  2- Observations

  3-Conferencing

  4- Questioning

What is diagnostic assessment?

• It’s used to have an identification of areas for improvement and to seek specific suggestions for improvement.

• Used to measure what students have learned at the end of a defined period of instruction.

• Is a variety of assessment tasks that are used to determine students’ level of knowledge, skills, and understandings at the beginning of a course, grade level, unit and/or lesson.

Classroom examples of diagnostic assessments

• -Written Responses

  -Exit Tickets

  -Questioning

  -Conferencing

  -Observations

  -Rubrics

• -Initial writing prompts.

  -KWL charts.

  -Running Records.

  -Informal Reading

  -Assessments

  -Pre-tests

  -Surveys

  -Journals

• -End of unit: Tests

  -Final: Exams

  -Culminating: Projects

  -Portfolios

Definition of Formative Assessment:

• Are used to identify each student's strengths and weaknesses so that educators can provide specialized academic support, educational programming or social services.

• Refers to a related series of measures used to determine a complex attribute of an individual or group of individuals.

• It’s used to have an identification of areas for improvement and to seek specific suggestions for improvement.

Examples of Formative Assessment activities:

• -Pre-tests

  -Surveys

  -Journals

  -KWL charts

• -Measuring improvement over time

  -Evaluating the teaching methods

  -Motivating students to study

• - Written Responses

  -Student self-assessments

  -Questioning

  -Observations

  -Conferencing

  -Rubrics

  -Exit Tickets

Definition of Summative Assessment:

• Used to measure what students have learned at the end of a defined period of instruction.

• It’s the evaluation of an individual learner used to help individual improve performance.

• Refers to a related series of measures used to determine a complex attribute of an individual or group of individuals.

Purposes of the Summative Assessment:

• - Motivating students to study

  -Evaluating the teaching methods

  - Ranking the students' capabilities in relation to the whole group evaluation

• - Measure student achievement at the end of a unit of study.

  - Determine learning priorities for the students

  - Evaluation of group instruction or curriculum effectiveness

  - Could be used to predict future success with other courses or standards

• - Written Responses

   

  - Exit Tickets

   

  - Questioning

  - Conferencing

Classroom examples of Summative Assessment:

• - Initial writing prompts

  - KWL charts

  - Running Records

  - Informal Reading

  - Assessments

  - Pre-tests

  - Surveys

  - Journals

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  - Written Responses

   

  - Exit Tickets

   

  - Questioning

  - Conferencing

  - Observations

  - Rubrics

• End of unit: tests

  •Final: Exams

  •Culminating: Projects

  Portfolios