Assessment 20Instruments

Name of strategy
Description
Justification
Graphic Organizer
Formative Assessment

Journals
Formative Assessment

Entrance/Exit Cards
Formative Assessment

Rubrics

Portfolios

3x Summarization
Formative Assessment

Visualization
Formative Assessment

Chalkboard Splash
Formative Assessment

Running Record
Formative Assessment used to keep track of students miscues while reading.
Running records helps teachers see what strategies the student is using to decode words and also what they need more instruction on using other decoding strategies.
Two Roses, One Thorn
Formative Assessment

Traffics Lights
Formative Assessment

Questioners
Summative Assessment

Surveys
Summative Assessment

Testing
Summative Assessment

Projects
Summative Assessment used to show how much a student has learned through their item presented.
Students can create a project that is unique to their learning style and also shows their understanding of the subject.
Compare and Contrast
Summative Assessment that allows students to show what they know by telling what is alike and what is different.
Comparing and contrasting two items shows how much a student knows about the subject by being able to determine what makes them alike and explaining how they are different.
Carousel Brainstorming
Formative
http://gssd.ca/docs/student%20srvcs/Module2PreassessmentStrategies.pdf
Graffiti Wall
Formative

Inside-Outside Circle
Formative

One Minute Essay
Formative

Placemats
Formative

Response Cards
Formative

Super Sleuth
Formative

Three facts and a fib
Formative Assessment where students write down three facts about the subject and one fib. Then, they rotate around the room to other students. The students have to determine what a fact is and what a fib is.
This assessment can get students to interact with one another. It also allows them to create their own question and be an expert on their answers.
3, 2, 1
Formative

Cloze activities
Summative

One minute fluency
Summative

Spelling Inventories
Summative Assessment used to determine what level a student is in based on their spelling and understanding of words.
Spelling inventories can be very useful, especially in lower level grades, because the words are listed from easiest to hardest and the teacher can determine when they start having trouble spelling words. They can also see where they need to go with their instruction based on a students needs.
Analogy Prompt
Formative Assessment that gives students a prompt (______________is like ___________because_______________.)
This is a good way for the teacher to see if the students are understand the information enough to be able to compare it to something else.
Reader’s Theater

http://www.levy.k12.fl.us/instruction/Instructional_Tools/60FormativeAssessment.pdf
Formative Assessment where the teacher gives a topic to a group of students and then they must write a script and perform it.
This can be used in any subject and is a great way to get students to collaborate with one another about what needs to be in the script and how they can perform it in order to explain it to the class.
I have a question, who has an answer?
Formative Assessment where a teacher makes cards with an answer to one question and a question to another answer. Then, distributes the cards to the class. The point is to create a chain reaction. One student starts by asking their question and another student responds with the answer. Then, that student ask their question and so on.
This is a good way to keep the students listening because they will not know who has the card that corresponds with theirs until it is read. They will also be having to think about how the question is going to be asked so they know if they have the answer.