Unit 9: Assessment Strategies

Peer Evaluation

Students' assessment of each other's learning.

Self Evaluation

Students' assessment of their own learning.

Validity

a characteristic of assessments that actually measures the learning objectives.

Reliability

a characteristic of assessments that measures learning consistently and fairly, even with different groups or under different circumstances.

Student Profile

a collection of a student's work selected to show growth over time, highlight skills and achievements, or to show how well the student meets the standards.

Informal Assessment

a form of assessment that focuses on the content and performance of the students; usually a project writing sample, quiz, or homework.

Formative Assessment

a form of assessment used throughout student learning to provide feedback on student understanding; used as guide to direct the instruction.

Formal Assessment

a form of assessment used to measure overall achievement; usually a standardized test that measures students' performance under the same circumstances. Results can be broken into subgroups to compare..

Rubrics

a scoring tool that lists the criteria for judging a particular type of work. It also describes levels of quality for each of the criteria and is often organized as a chart, with the criteria (characteristics that count for scoring) on the left, followed by columns that describe different levels of quality for each characteristic.

Checklist

a simple list of items to be noted, checked, or remembered when evaluating learning.

Authentic Assessment

a type of assessment in which students perform a real-world task by applying learned skills, such as taking a driver's test, building a model, designing a floor plan, or implementing a lesson plan.

Summative Assessment

a type of assessment used at the end of instruction to evaluate student learning.

Performance-based Assessment

a type of assessment used to measure a student's ability to perform certain learning tasks by applying skills, knowledge, and work habits; measures how well a student can apply knowledge to performance.

Feedback

helpful information or constructive criticism that is given to students to help improve their performance.

Assessment

means for improving instruction and learnin

Standardized Test

tests that measure students' performance compared to that of thousands of other students.

Mastery Learning

the process of mastering each instructional objective before moving on to the next objective.