Fifty Ways to Assess Learning
Formative Tools
- Classroom Assessment Techniques—these are a variety of informal short activities to assess how students’ learning is progressing. They can be done daily, weekly, monthly etc.( Angelo and Cross, 1993)
- One minute paper
- Muddiest point
- One sentence summary
- Background Questionnaire
- Content Inquiry
- Written Feedback
- Oral Feedback/ individual student meetings
- Peer feedback
- Self analysis of work- builds metacognition skills
- Small Group Instructional Diagnosis (SGID)
- Recitation
- Discussion
- Observations
Summative Tools
1. Essay tests
2. Objective tests, true-false, multiple choice, fill-in-the blanks, matching
3. Cases
4. Open book tests
5. Take home tests
6. Group tests
7. Students make up a test
8. Daily quizzes
9. Pop quizzes
10. Scheduled quizzes
11. Oral presentations-power point, transparencies, web pages or sites
12. Written reports
13. Written term papers
14. Written essays
15. Group presentations
16. Speeches
17. Role plays
18. Performances
19. Simulations
20. Games, like College Bowl, Jeopardy
21. Debates
22. Trials
23. Point-Counter Point
24. Town Meeting
25. Create video or DVD
26. Interviews
27. Teach a lesson
28. Writing case studies
29. Solving problems
30. Creating mind maps-content maps
31. Create images or drawings
32. Reflective Journals
33. Discussion/participation
34. Problem sets/math/chemistry/physics /accounting
35. Answer questions from readings
36. Write summary or notes of reading
37. Puppet Show
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