Assessment Vocabulary

A series of steps designed to perform a task or learn a skill

• Pedagogical Knowledge

• Strategies

• Remediation

• Enrichment

• Rigor

What assessment format is an essay an example of?

• Selected Response

• Constructed Response

• Performance Task

• Informal

DOK stands for

• Depth of Knowledge

• Data or Know

• Drive of Knowledge

• Difficultly of Kids

What is a key characteristic of summative assessments?

• They are informal and ungraded

• They occur at the beginning of a learning period

• They are used to assign final grades

• They provide immediate feedback to students

Universal Screeners

• Monitors students' progress toward standards mastery. 

• Provides overall picture of students' learning and achievement.

• Provides data for specific programs including talented and gifted, Tier 2, and Early Intervention Program (EIP).

• Provides immediate or timely feedback on student understanding. 

Summative Assessments

• Monitors students' progress toward standards mastery. 

• Provides overall picture of students' learning and achievement.

• Provides data for specific programs including talented and gifted, Tier 2, and Early Intervention Program (EIP).

• Provides immediate or timely feedback on student understanding. 

Reteach a skill or strategy not mastered; based on data

• Pedagogical Knowledge

• Strategies

• Remediation

• Enrichment

• Rigor

PLC stands for

• 
  Performance Leads to Communication

• Pretty Lit Class

• Professional Literature Circle

• Professional Learning Community

Interim Assessments

• Monitors students' progress toward standards mastery. 

• Provides overall picture of students' learning and achievement.

• Provides data for specific programs including talented and gifted, Tier 2, and Early Intervention Program (EIP).

• Provides immediate or timely feedback on student understanding. 

Formative Assessments

• Monitors students' progress toward standards mastery. 

• Provides overall picture of students' learning and achievement.

• Provides data for specific programs including talented and gifted, Tier 2, and Early Intervention Program (EIP).

• Provides immediate or timely feedback on student understanding.