Student-centered Assessment for Learning creates opportunities to dig deeper than traditional assessments. Instead of viewing assessment as consecutive to learning—something that happens when learning is complete—a student-centered classroom views learning as continuous. Assessment, then, is an additional opportunity for growth in knowledge and skill; it becomes a tool for learning.
REFLECTION OPPORTUNITIES TOOL
“Leveraging Google Forms to Get Information and Feedback from Students” by Jara Richards
An exemplar Google form used for reflection at the end of a math unit, which educators can use as inspiration for their own, as well as guidance for effective student reflection.
FREQUENT, VARIED ASSESSMENTS TOOLS
“Leveraging Verbal Processing through ‘Speed Dating’” by Lindsey Combs
A “speed dating” activity to use at the beginning of a unit, to leverage students’ oral and social skills as they create thesis statements to clarify their main arguments (theses).
“Habitat Research Project: Varied Assessments to Demonstrate Mastery” by Jen Hines
The tool is a research project unit that employs varied assessments.
PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENTS TOOLS
“Text on Trial: Mock Trial Performance Assessment” by Margaret Hersey
The unit plan is for a performance-assessment-based unit and can provide an exemplar of a contextualized Performance Assessment and of Assessment for Learning.
“The Time Capsule Project: An Opportunity for Connection and Understanding” by Jessica Zwillinger
A slide deck containing student-facing directions, examples, and contextual materials for a project / performance assessment.