Assessment strategies

What is assessment?

• Teachers gathering information about their teaching and students learning

• The process of putting students in a hierarchy

An example of assessment in early childhood

• Play based assessments, incorporating a child's development as a person

• 1000 word reports

An example of diagnostic assessment

• end of semester exam

• graffiti wall

• informal debates

• learning journals/portfolio

Assessment is more than just writing down answers on a paper

• True

• False

What is formative assessment?

• Assessment before a unit of work

• Formal/informal assessment during teaching embedded in the learning process

What is diagnostic assessment?

• Conducted before content showing students prior knowledge on topic

• Conducted before content showing which student is the smartest

What is summative assessment?

• Undertaken after a unit of work, identifying learning from a entire unit

• Undertaken after a unit of work 5 years in the future

An example of formative assessment

• brainstorm charts

• short summaries

• exit tickets

• all of the above