Beautiful Visual Featuring 7 Ways to Do Formative Assessments in Class

October 30, 2014
Below is an excellent visual that features some handy ideas on how to carry on formative assessments in your class. Squareheadteachers took this original chart and remade it into a more reader friendly format which is also available for free download from this link.

Related: Formative Vs Summative assessment

As  refresher on formative assessment. This kind of assessment is usually referred to as assessment  for learning which is completely different from summative assessment which is assessment of learning. Formative assessment is used to check students understanding and to plan subsequent instruction. The information gained from this type of assessment aims at helping teachers make the next step in their instruction. Also, insights gained from formative assessment is meant to be integrated into an instructional model that allows for responsiveness to students need.

Check out the visual below for more ideas on how to go about assessing your students formatively.

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A Handy Chart on Traditional Vs Authentic Assessment

October 22, 2014
Today I spent sometime reading this white paper from Educause Learning Initiative entitled "Making the Grade:The Role of Assessment in Authentic Learning". While the paper discusses at length the the concept of assessment and its relation to students learning, I particularly found the chart in page 6, see below, of particular interest. It captures the essential differences between two models of assessment : Traditional Assessment model (TA) and Authentic Assessment model.

I am pretty sure  that, knowingly or not, we have all tried these models intermittently  in our own teaching practice. However,  talking about them explicitly and highlighting the key points of each of them will definitely help you better understand how to incorporate them constructively in your instruction. To this end I am inviting you to have a look at the chart. I would also recommend that you read the whole White paper PDF (16 pages long) as it is really so insightful and also provides a  goldmine of resources and links for further research into authentic assessment.

Source: http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/eli3019.pdf

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