Five Assessment Strategies

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Since we got a lecture on evaluation and assessment , I decided to share with you 5 assessment strategies you shouldn’t miss.
Formative assessment strategies in the classroom provide both teachers and students with invaluable information about what students understand, and what they don’t.
Some formative assessments can take just a few minutes, while others require longer periods of time. The following are 5 great formative assessment strategies for teachers.
1. Analysis of Student Work
A great deal of information can be learned from students’ homework, tests, and quizzes—especially if the students are required to explain their thinking. When teachers take the time to analyze student work, they gain knowledge about:
-A student’s current knowledge, attitudes, and skills about subject matter
-Strengths, weaknesses, and learning styles
-Need for further, or special, assistance
The analysis of students’ classroom work allows teachers to modify their instruction so that they will be more effective in the future.
2. Strategic Questioning Strategies
Questioning strategies may be used with individuals, small groups, or the entire class.  Effective formative assessment strategies involve asking students to answer well-thought-out, higher-order questions such as “why” and “how.” Higher-order questions require more in-depth thinking from the students, and help the teacher discern the level and extent of the students’ understanding.
3. Think-Pair-Share
This is one of the many formative assessment strategies that is simple for teachers to use. The instructor asks a question, and students write down their answers.  Students are then placed in pairs to discuss their responses.
Teachers are able to move around the classroom and listen to various discussions, gaining insight into an individual’s levels of understanding.  After a time, the students discuss their responses with the entire class.
4. Exit/Admit Tickets
A simple but effective formative assessment is the Exit Ticket. Exit Tickets are small pieces of paper, or index cards, that students deposit as they leave the classroom. Students are required to write down an accurate interpretation of the main idea behind the lesson taught that day, and then provide more detail about the topic.
Teachers review the responses, and gain insight as to which students have fully learned the concept, and those that are still struggling.
5. One-Minute Papers
One-minute papers are usually done at the end of the day. Students in groups (or individually) are asked to answer a brief question in writing. The papers are collected and analyzed by the instructor to gain awareness of the students’ understanding.  One-minute papers have been found to be more effective when done on a frequent basis.

Effective and engaging formative assessment strategies like this can take failure out of the classroom.

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