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WorksheetsEDUC 8: ASSESSMENT OF STUDENT LEARNING
Total questions: 60
Worksheet time: 34mins
Which of the following is NOT a typical example of formative assessment?
K-W-L Chart
Student Response Cards
Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down
Unit Test
Formative assessment is assessment
given prior to instruction
used during instruction
used for standards based grading
given at the end of a unit
Providing personalized feedback to student’s _____.
is more effective at improving learning than assigning grades
can occur at the end of the learning cycle
is most effective if not given verbally
is most effective if given verbally
Before creating instruction, it’s necessary to know what kind of students you’re creating the instruction. Your goal is to get to know your student’s strengths, weaknesses and the skills and knowledge the posses before taking the instruction. Based on the data you’ve collected, you can create your instruction.
Formative assessment
Authentic Assessments
Diagnostic Assessment
Summative assessment
Performance Assessment
These assessments are used in the first attempt of developing instruction. The goal is to monitor student learning to provide feedback. It helps identifying the first gaps in your instruction. Based on this feedback you’ll know what to focus on for further expansion for your instruction.
Authentic Assessments
Performance Assessment
Confirmative assessment
Summative assessment
Formative assessment
These assessments are aimed at assessing the extent to which the most important outcomes at the end of the instruction have been reached. But it measures more: the effectiveness of learning, reactions on the instruction and the benefits on a long-term base. The long-term benefits can be determined by following students who attend your course, or test. You are able to see whether and how they use the learned knowledge, skills and attitudes.
Performance Assessment
Criterion-referenced assessment
Authentic Assessments
Summative assessment
Confirmative assessment
An assessment in which students are asked to perform real-world tasks that demonstrate meaningful application of essential knowledge and skills these tasks promote the use of reading, writing, speaking, listening, and creating skills used in a real-world context.
Pre-assessment or diagnostic assessment
Authentic Assessments
Summative Assessment
Formative Assessment
Performance Assessment
Authentic or Not: A teacher assigns a task for students to hypothetically write a letter to their local congress person about a local problem pertaining to recycling.
Authentic Assessment
NOT an Authentic Assessment
Authentic or Not: Students were put into groups and assigned to create a wireframe for app that would help track, record, and reduce the negative impacts of a local invasive specie.
Authentic Assessment
NOT an Authentic Assessment
Which of the following is NOT a typical example of formative assessment?
K-W-L Chart
Student Response Cards
Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down
Unit Test
One positive result of using formative assessments is:
students will complain to their parents about you
students can set goals for themselves
teachers will not use it because they hate NOT grading papers
teachers will get to go to Hawaii every year
What impacts student growth the most?
self assessment
models of class work
feedback with guidance
all of the above
Research says that assessments should contain ...
multiple choice and short answer questions
long answer questions only
short answer questions only
multiple choice answers only
Formative and Summative assessments should include ...
only new topics
a variety of topics taught previously
only current topics being taught
Low stake testing ....
has no impact on learning
should never be used
can help students to better organise their knowledge
is a pedagogical myth
Digital quizzes, such as this one, are ...
just a waste of time
another tool to support learning
just a gimmick
not helpful as they don’t make you think
Low stake assessments must be graded and teachers should keep every digital quiz result
True – Students and their parents want a grade for all work that is completed.
False – these assessments are just a snapshot of student progression and used to edit instruction towards individual learning goals
Why should I use digital quizzes as 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
