These ideas help to simplify and clarify that challenging task of classroom assessment.

A powerful short cycle assessment designed to improve learning that involves communication and collaboration with students, their peers and other teachers.

Assessment designed primarily to determine student achievement at a give point in time.

Identifying what we want the students to know, deciding on what the evidence will look like, what modes and strategies will be used to assess, planning how, when and where to assess and planning for corrective instruction and differentiation.

Design is somewhat flexible, adaptive and gives all participants in the research a voice.

Identify desired results, determine acceptable evidence and plan learning experiences and instruction.

Formative assessment is also known as ____________.

Assessments that summarize what students have learned at the conclusion of an instruction segment.

Articulating to student what it is teachers want them to know in the student's own language.

The action research process can generally be described as a series of 4 steps.

Assessment is a ____________ that is most effective when it involves self, peer and teacher assessment.

To improve student achievement, teachers need to carefully have planned opportunities to give this to their students.

Summative assessment usually includes these.

Trying to hook students by personally engaging them in the activity.

Introduction, review of literature, methodology, results and conclusion, implications and recommendations are part of this.

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"Your topic sentence is clear and engaging!" is an example of this.

Empirically developed test that includes specific directions for administration and scoring. This includes evidence of reliability, validity, and information about how the test was normed.

This would begin with the identification of a clear and concise learning goal.

Action research questions originate from this.

Assessment and instruction are this because effective assessment informs learning.

This is never assigned in descriptive feedback.

Students are asked to complete a task that will test a specific set of skills and/or abilities and determine what the students knows and are capable of doing.

A sample of student work that represents either the best or expected level of performance on a given task.

A strategy teacher can use to investigate a problem or area of interest specific to their professional context.