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WorksheetsThe Importance of Formative Assessment
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 33mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What dimension of formative assessment should be clearly identified and communicated to students and should help the students make connections within a larger sequences?
a)
Learning Goals
b)
Success Criteria
c)
Feedback
d)
Learning Criteria
2.
In a learning goal students understand their unintended learning of a lesson and they are better prepared to engage with the content and their learning is postively impacted.
a)
True
b)
False
3.
What dimension of formative assessment is clearly identified and communicated to students so they can understand what qualitly work actually looks like and are more able to demonstrate their own learning?
a)
Learning Goals
b)
Success Criteria
c)
Learning Target
d)
Assessments
4.
At the higher levels criteria for success are integrated into the lesson and are accessible to the teacher and supports his/her learning.
a)
True
b)
False
5.
When creating task and evidence to elicit evidence of learning during formative assessment why do teachers use a range of tasks and activities?
a)
To engage the students.
b)
To collect relvant evidence of student thinking.
c)
To prevent down time.
d)
To collect artifacts to use for a grade.
6.
What are some tasks and activites a teacher could use to elicit evidence of learning for formative assessment?
a)
Discuss
b)
Discuss
7.
What is the teachers main focus for the dimension of formative assessment “Questioning”?
a)
Teachers focus to collect samples of students’ progress through questioning.
b)
Teachers focus to collect evidence of students’ progress through questioning.
c)
Teachers focus to assess students’ progress through questioning.
d)
Teachers focus to assess students learning through questioning.
8.
Students should be provided with ongoing feedback that helps them develop ideas and understanding of the content. When should teachers provide ongoing feedback?
a)
In the beginning of the lesson.
b)
During the middle of the lesson.
c)
At the end of the lesson.
d)
Throughout the lesson.
9.
What should descriptive feedback be linked to?
a)
Intended instructional outcomes
b)
Unintended instructional outcomes
c)
Intended instructional outcomes and criteria for success
d)
Unintended instructional outcomes and success criteria
10.
How should descriptive feedback be delivered?
a)
Whole Group
b)
Small Group
c)
Individually
d)
With a peer
11.
Peer assessment is important for providing students an opportunity to think about the work of their peers. Who benefits from peer assessments?
a)
The person receiving the feedback only.
b)
The person receiving the feedback and the teacher observing.
c)
The person providing the feedback and the teacher observing.
d)
The person providing the feedback and the person receiving the feedback.
12.
Research suggests that improved understanding of one’s own learning is a critical strategy that can lead to improvements in learning. What dimension of formative assessment gives the students an opportunity to think meta-cognitively about their own learning?
a)
Peer Feedback
b)
Teacher Feedback
c)
Self-Assessment
d)
Peer-Assessment
13.
Classrooms that promote thinking and learning , student autonomy, and students as learning resources for one another are more successful in encouraging lifelong learners. What dimension of formative assessment promotes life-long learners?
a)
Descriptive Feedback
b)
Self-Assessment
c)
Collaboration
d)
Questioning
14.
What does the teacher’s use to adjust instruction across the lesson as a whole?
a)
Use of Feedback
b)
Use of Collaboration
c)
Use of Evidence
d)
Use of Learning Goals
15.
When is the use of evidence to inform instructions used? Explain when it is used, how it is used, and why it is used?
a)
Discuss
b)
Discuss
16.
Which one of the following is not one of the ten dimensions of formative assessment?
a)
Self-Assessment
b)
Feedback
c)
Collaboration
d)
Peer Evaluation
17.
Should formative assessment be graded? Explain why or why not?
a)
Yes! Explain please.
b)
No! Explain please.
18.
There are five key attributes of effective formative assessment. Which attribute clearly articulates the pathway students travel to meet a learning goal?
a)
Learning Goals
b)
Learning Progressions
c)
Descriptive Feedback
d)
Collaboration
19.
There are five key attributes of effective formative assessment. Which attribute is evidence based and linked to the intended instructional outcomes and success criteria?
a)
Self and Peer Assessments
b)
Collaboration
c)
Learning progressions
d)
Descriptive Feedback
20.
There are five key attributes of effective formative assessment. Which attribute creates a classroom culture in which teachers and students are partners in learning?
a)
Self and Peer Assessment
b)
Collaboration
c)
Learning Progression
d)
Descriptive Feedback
21.
There are five key attributes of effective formative assessment. Which attribute is used frequently to encourage students to understand and internalize the success criteria?
a)
Self and Peer Assessment
b)
Collaboration
c)
Learning Progression
d)
Descriptive Feedback
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