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Nc Department of Public Instruction: Effective Formative Assessment [Pdf]
To promote the use of formative assessment, the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) created a national initiative to promote the use of formative assessment. This document presents the definition of formative assessment, and...
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)
Ascd: The Best Value in Formative Assessment
Ready-made benchmark tests cannot substitute for day-to-day formative assessment conducted by assessment-literate teachers. This article helps educators find out what assessment for learning is and how it leads to student improvement.
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Nwea: The Five Formative Assessment Strategies to Improve Student Learning
Dylan Wiliam provides the five strategies that he has come to believe are core to successful formative assessment practice in the classroom.
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West Virginia Dept. Of Education: Teach 21: Examples of Formative Assessment
When incorporated into classroom practice, the formative assessment process provides information needed to adjust teaching and learning while they are still happening. The process serves as practice for the student and a check for...
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)
Ascd: Classroom Assessment & Grading That Work:case for Classroom Assessment
A review of the effects of different forms of formative assessment on student improvement and overall achievement.
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Measured Progress: Raising Standards Through Assessment [Pdf]
Firm evidence shows that formative assessment is an essential component of classroom work, and that its development can raise standards of achievement. Indeed, they know of no other way of raising standards for which such a strong first...
University of South Florida
Florida Center for Instructional Technology: Classroom Assessment
This University of Southern Florida site offers an in-depth look at summative and formative assessments.
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Manitoba Education: Rethinking Classroom Assessment With Purpose in Mind [Pdf]
As implied in the title, Rethinking Classroom Assessment with Purpose in Mind, identifying the purpose of any assessment is critical for its effective use. This document identifies three purposes of classroom assessment: assessment for...
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Kathy Schrock: Assessment and Rubric Information
Kathy Schrock has gathered over forty rubric possibilities for assessing student work in all subject areas and grade levels. Some pages allow a teacher to create a custom rubric, as well.
Northern Illinois University
Northern Illinois University: Formative and Summative Assessment [Pdf]
This resource provides an in-depth discussion concerning summative and formative assessments.
Carnegie Mellon University
Enhancing Education: Formative vs Summative Assessment
Use this resource to incorporate summative and formative assessments.
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: Needs of Living Things: Pre Assessment
This is a pre-assessment to be done at the beginning of a unit on the needs of living things. Students draw themselves and what they need to survive. The lesson can be downloaded in PDF format.
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: Needs of Living Things: Post Assessment
A post-assessment at the end of a unit on the needs of living things. The lesson materials can be downloaded in PDF format.
Buck Institute
Pbl Works: Project Assessment Map
[Free Registration/Login Required] The Project Assessment Map helps you plan how you will use formative assessments in a project, to be sure students are learning content and building 21st century competencies.
Buck Institute
Pbl Works: Assessment in Project Based Learning
[Free Registration/Login Required] As an educator do you struggle with how to assess students' learning in PBL framework? This video addresses the common assessment issues in PBL, how to assess content knowledge in a project, how to...
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Measured Progress: Formative and Summative Assessments in the Classroom [Pdf]
This resource is a comprehensive guide to defining and incorporating formative and summative assessments.
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Ntlf: Class Participation Assessment Rubric
This rubric is a means of restricting the subjective element in an assessment process of a Socratic dialogue, which inevitably has a subjective aspect. It suggests that students should be scored on the basis on the teacher's...
University of Oregon
Computer Based Assessment: Taxonomy Table
This website introduces a taxonomy or categorization of 28 innovative item types useful in computer-based assessment. The taxonomy describes "intermediate constraint" items. These item types have responses that fall somewhere between...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Mac Arthur Foundation: Measuring What Matters Most: Choice Based Assessments [Pdf]
An educator's guide to understanding and implementing choice-based assessment in the classroom. This guide argues that choice should be the interpretive framework within which learning assessments are organized.
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E School News: Doing More With Less: How Informed Assessment Practices Can [Pdf]
An in-depth guide for educators about Informed Assessment Practices. These types of practices can efficiently shed light on student learning; without them, educators cannot determine the most appropriate next steps to strengthen...
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Measured Progress: Performance Assessment Making a Comeback in Schools [Pdf]
Understand the importance of performance assessment in your classroom. It might take more time and effort, its advocates say-but when done right, it can lead to a deeper analysis of students' skills.
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center
Wisconsin Rt I Center: Writing to Learn [Pdf]
Teachers will learn how to use Writing to Learn as a formative assessment tool. Teachers will learn how to implement the strategy, measure progress, and find research to support writing to learn. A list of Writing to Learn activities is...
Information Fluency
Imsa 21 Cif Portal: Searching for Non Html Formats?
Micro-Module provides instruction on searching documents in non-HTML formats. Find out about specilized search engines for alternate file formats. Also contains godd charts summarizing file extensions of alternate formats. Following the...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Plix: Mineral Formation
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] See mineral formation with this interactive animation! Also test your knowledge of mineral formation with a short assessment.