PLANNING+ASSESSMENTS

MAKING A PLAN

Developing assessments is a complicated process that involves planning, development and use of formative assessments to plan for instruction. There are four different instructional practices that all assessments fall into. These assessments are used for different purposes depending upon where you are in the lesson and what your target is in the learning stage. After an introduction to a standard, the instructional practice might be tailored to identify evidence of knowledge, reasoning, skill, or a product. Depending upon the evidence you are looking for, you will use one of the four instructional practices mentioned above.
 * selected
 * written
 * performance
 * personal communication.

Knowledge - personal communication, selected response or written response would all be preferred methods because it provides students with opportunities to identifies strenghts and weaknesses in knowledge or what they have learned. Selected response can be multiple choice, true/false, matching or fill in the blanks questions. Written response would be extended questions allowing students to respond to open ended questions.

Reasoning - personal communication or written response to include questions, conferences, interviews

Skill - performance assessment which allows a student to perform a task to demonstrate what they have learned. That product is evaluated using a rubric to evalute the level of quality.

Product - performance assessment