Formative & Summative Assessments

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Online tools to engage students and gather data about what students know and don't know

Modeling

Strategy that allows students to observe the teacher engaged in the learning task

Cognitive Skill

The mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses.

Self-Assessment

A process by which students monitor and evaluate their thinking and identify strategies that improve their understanding and skills.

Peer Assessment

A process whereby a student's peers grade assignments or tests based on a teacher's benchmarks. The practice is employed to save teachers time and improve students' understanding of course materials as well as improve their metacognitive skills.

Feedback

Any information given to the student about their current performance

Metacognitive Skills

Awareness and understanding of one's own thought processes.

Informal Assessment

Focuses on the learning and not the grade

Minute by Minute and Day by Day

How often you should formatively assess students

Differentiated Instruction

Modifying and adapting instruction and assessment to meet the learning needs of individual students.

Wait time

Strategy that gives students the space to think before responding

Summative Assessment

Used to evaluate student learning at the end of an instructional unit -- e.g., unit test or project

Formative Assessment

Variety of formal and informal assessments conducted by teachers during the learning process to modify teaching and learning activities to improve student attainment