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Formative Assessment Activities and Techniques

1. The document describes formative assessment activities that teachers can use to check student understanding, including having students write explanations of what they learned, assigning warm-up problems, and having students highlight or discuss important parts of a text. 2. Summative assessment tools are also discussed, such as performance tasks that test specific skills and are scored using rubrics, as well as written products like essays or reflections. 3. Different types of assessment are defined, including assessment of learning to evaluate student achievement, assessment for learning where students use tasks to further their own learning, and assessment as learning where students are active in the assessment process.

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Formative Assessment Activities and Techniques

1. The document describes formative assessment activities that teachers can use to check student understanding, including having students write explanations of what they learned, assigning warm-up problems, and having students highlight or discuss important parts of a text. 2. Summative assessment tools are also discussed, such as performance tasks that test specific skills and are scored using rubrics, as well as written products like essays or reflections. 3. Different types of assessment are defined, including assessment of learning to evaluate student achievement, assessment for learning where students use tasks to further their own learning, and assessment as learning where students are active in the assessment process.

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Formative Assessment Activities and Techniques

Have the students write down an explanation of what they have


understood. Read these explanations to help inform your instruction, and
1. Write
write comments on them or discuss them with the student to give them
it down
feedback.

Assign students a warm up problem or two. Handout index cards to the


2. My students. Sort the index into yes/no piles. Choose your favorite no
Favorite question response and analyze it as a class.
No
Students read an informative text independently, highlighting or writing
down a few sentence they found important or interesting, of note, or
that give them an “Ah ha!” moment. Then group the students and have
3. Text
each share a sentence from text. Next, have each student pick and share a
Rendering
phrase from the sentence they shared. Finally, each student will pick one
word from that sentence and share. Have students then discuss if the
words, phrases and sentences they chose sum up the main idea.

Summative Assessment Tools

Students are asked to complete a task that will test a specific


1. Performance set of skills and/or abilities and determine what the students
Task knows and are capable of doing. A rubric, checklist, or other form
of scoring guide should accompany this type of assessment.

Students are asked to write an original selection. There are many


written forms that teachers can use to get students to write. In
addition, students may be asked to write about a previous activity
2. Written such as field trip or guest speaker. Students may also be asked to
Product create a piece of [pursuasive writing or a reflection about their
learning experience. A rubric, checklist or other form of scoring
guide should accompany this type of assessment.

Assessment AS Learning -
It is a use of a task or an
Assesment OF Learning activity to allow students
- Assist teachers to the opportunity to use
use evidence of the assessment to further their Assessment FOR
student learning to own learning Learning - Students
assess student's are encouraged to be
achievement against more active in their
learning goals and learning and associated
standards assessment.

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