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