Assessment Examples

This section describes and analyzes assessment strategies with sources for further information.

• Contracts
• Creative Performances and Exhibitions
• Familiar Assessment Tools: Tests
• Graphic Organizers
• Interviews
• Journals and Learning Logs
• Observation
• Performance Tasks
• Portfolios
• Reporting: Report Cards, Grades, and Student-Led Conferences
• Scoring Guides
• Self- and Peer-Evaluations

The assessment strategies are classroom-based assessments. Most are embedded assessments; that is, the assessment is part of instruction and informs the teacher how to adjust instruction during the teaching process. They provide ongoing documentation of a student's ability relative to the Alaska Content Standards. They are not designed to be used as final assessment rubrics to quantify whether or not the students have achieved the Alaska Content Standards.

Performance tasks addressing the content standards and related assessment rubrics for those tasks can be found at (http://www.eed.state.ak.us/tls/assessment/benchmark.html).

Contracts

Elementary Contract
Contract Likert Scale
Contract Worksheet

Creative Performances and Exhibitions

Pictorial Math Problem Solving
Oral Contributions

Familiar Assessment Tools: Tests

Guidelines for Test Writing
Fill in the Blank
Matching Example
Essay Example

Graphic Organizers

Flow Chart
Webbing
Venn Diagram
KWL Chart

Interviews

Susitna Elementary Think/Talk Project
Structured Primary Math Interview
Project Interview
Performance Task Interview
Questioning Suggestions
High School Problem Solving Interview

Journals and Learning Logs

Reflective Log
Fractions Journal Entry
Learning Log
Visual Reminders
Note Taking/Note Making

Observation

Problem Solving Checklist
Detachable Labels
3x5 Card Notes

Performance Tasks

Fishing Formulas
Criteria for Performance Tasks

Portfolios

Math Autobiographies
Portfolio Entries for Young Children
NCTM Draft Rubric Standards for Evaluating Math Portfolios for Young Children

Reporting

Scoring Guides

Analytical Trait Scale for Multiplication
Checklist

Self and Peer Evaluations

Problem Solving Rating Scale
Portfolio Reflection Items
Reflective Feedback
Student Reflective Focus Questions