Deep Dive: Summative Assessments, Scoring, and Errors

What is a Summative Assessment?

• An assessment to monitor student learning progress. How students form knowledge

• An assessment as a summary of student learning. Evaluates student learning at the end of a certain period

• An assessment that measures student scores against a mean or average score

• An assessment based on a standard or predetermined set of criteria

Which of these questions do summative assessments NOT answer?

• Who reached the learning target?

• How well are students responding to instruction?

• How well are students progressing with their learning?

What does DIBELS tell us?

• If a student can or cannot read

• If a student is at risk for reading failure

• How well students can read nonsense words

What is DIBELS?

• A formative assessment

• A diagnostic assessment

• A screener

What does NWF (Nonsense word fluency) measure?

• Whether students can decode words that don't make sense

• It does not measure anything

• If students can read

What type of assessment is the EL Benchmark Assessment? Select all that apply

• Benchmark assessment

• Summative Assessment

• Diagnostic Assessment

• Formative Assessment

• Norm-referenced Assessment

What does the ELBenchmark assessment determine? Select all that apply

• If students can read

• What sounds and spelling patterns students struggle with

• If students are ready for the next grade level

• Which of Ehri's Phases a student is currently in

Which of these is NOT one of Ehri's Phases of Reading Development?

• Late Consolidated Alphabetic

• Early full Alphabetic

• Middle Partial Alphabetic

• Late-pre Alphabetic

• Late early Alphabetic

What is the purpose of ANET, Illuminate, LEAP, and Module Summative Assessments?

• To determine who can read

• To determine who can comprehend

• To determine who is struggling with what standards

• To give students a grade

Where do ANET, LEAP, and Illuminate align with the curriculum?

• They do not align at all

• They focus on the same content

• They focus on the same standards