Tuesday Teaching Tips - Formative Assessments

Formative Assessments

How will we know they are learning?

Formative vs. Summative

Formative assessments are assessments to inform instruction (for learning), while summative assessments are assessments of learning.

Why should we use Formative Assessments?

Only by knowing where each student is on their learning path can we truly differentiate their instruction.

Options of Formative Assessment:

*Individual Dry-Erase Boards/Digital Whiteboards (on iPads)

   

                   Digital Whiteboards

    

Educreations

*Self-Assessment (Ex. Stoplight/Show Me Wallet)

     

*Quick Writes

Give students two or three minutes to reflect on and summarize their learning.

*Why am I wrong? Give an incorrect answer or misconception. Students write why the answer is wrong.

*Index Card Responses (Respond to question about the lesson)

*Headline - write a headline to describe a key understanding from class.

*Who, What, Where, When, Why, & How? - Write about what they learned in the lesson.

*ABC Summaries - Give each child a letter (skip the difficult letters).  Students select a word starting with that letter that is related to the lesson.

*S-O-S Summary

*3-2-1 Summarizer

*Exit/Admit slips

  

Here is a great video using an Admit Slip Strategy called - My Favorite No

*Observation

*Anecdotal Notes (“+” or “-”)  Did they understand or not?  What additional support or differentiation do they need?

*Running Records

*Checklists/Rubrics

*Look and Listen (Eavesdropping on groups)

*Hand Signals

Ask students to display a designated hand signal to indicate their understanding of a specific concept, principle or process.

*Fist-to-Five

*Thumbs Up

*1-2-3 Show me (1 = know very little, 2 understand well, 3 = I could teach it to someone else)

Hint:  Keep fingers or thumb in front of chest.

*Pop-Quizzes (not graded)

Quizzes assess students for factual information, concepts and discrete skill. There is usually a single best answer. Some quiz examples are:

*Multiple Choice

*True/False

*Short Answer

*Matching

*Short/Extended Response

Formative Assessments Using Technology:

Click on the Assessment for video tutorials & suggested ideas.

*Google Forms

*Kahoot!

*Nearpod

*Padlet

*Plickers

*Geddit

*Testmoz

*StrawPollMe

*Socrative