Formative Assessments

Formative Assessments

What is a formative assessment? How is it different from a summative assessment? What do they look like in a proficiency-based classroom?  Formative assessment refers to a wide variety of methods that teachers use to conduct in-process evaluations of student...
Proficiency Cards

Proficiency Cards

How can you start the year with proficiency? How can you help them to understand the proficiency levels? Here’s an activity for you.  Step 1: THE SCENARIO Read over the scenario with them.  Next, let’s see how these people responded to his question. Step...
Feedback

Feedback

Giving an open-ended performance assessment will inevitably show you a range of abilities among your students. Assessing with a proficiency rubric will help you (and your students) get a clearer picture of how they are progressing and what they need to work on. This...
Assigning a Grade

Assigning a Grade

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Snapshots: Assessing for Proficiency

Snapshots: Assessing for Proficiency

PERFORMACE ASSESSMENTS Overview Creating Scenarios Assessment Examples Explaining to Learners Assessing Samples with Rubric Grades Feedback Hover over the image below to look at the slides. Read the following scenarios and discuss these questions with your group: 1.)...