Assessments can take on many different forms. You can assess students through written tests, through asking questions, or through observations.There is importance in both formative and summativeassessments. Both forms not only assess students, but assess us as their educators. Formative Asssessments:
Monitors student learning for the purpose of adjusting instructional strategies and activities
Specific criteria should be identified – What are you looking for?
Examples
Questioning strategies
Student writing
Student products
Student performance
Summative Assessments:
Monitors student learning to determine student achievement and to evaluate their reading and writing
Specific criteria should be identified – How will you know that the student has achieved the desired outcome? What are you looking for?
Examples
Teacher – designed tests
Criterion – referenced tests
Norm – referenced tests
Portfolios
Projects
Open – ended student products
The following are ways in which to assess the development & progression of students' literacy. Spelling Inventory-
Assessing Students
Assessments can take on many different forms. You can assess students through written tests, through asking questions, or through observations.There is importance in both formative and summativeassessments. Both forms not only assess students, but assess us as their educators.Formative Asssessments:
Summative Assessments:
The following are ways in which to assess the development & progression of students' literacy.
Spelling Inventory-
Oral Language Assessment-
Running Records-
Writing Analysis-