Anecdotal Notes

Anecdotal notes are narrative descriptions of observed student behaviors, skills, attitudes or performance in classroom activities. Teachers use anecdotal notes to document student progress over time.

Checklists

Checklists enable the teacher to track the acquisition of specific skills. For example, this form of assessment could be used to track letter and sound knowledge in language arts and specific observed behaviors in math.

Division-created Common Assessments

Content specialists and division curriculum writers create common assessments delivered in a variety of formats (Schoology, Google Assignments, Performance Matters, etc.). Common assessments provide consistency in how students are evaluated and allows focus on specific skills and essential knowledge.

Exit Tickets

These help a teacher see what students are thinking and what they have learned at the end of a lesson. Before students leave or transition to another subject, they fill out a “ticket” with an answer to a question, a solution to a problem or a response to what they’ve learned. Exit Tickets help assess if students have “caught what you taught” and plan for the next lesson or unit of instruction.

Performance Tasks

Performance tasks are a way for students to show what they know and what they can do by creating a product and/or sharing their best thinking to demonstrate learning. They can also give students an opportunity to show why and how what they've learned applies to their world.

Teacher-created Assessments

Teachers create a variety of assessments to evaluate learning and provide students with feedback. These assessments can be informal, such as graphic organizers and journal entries, or more formal, such as quizzes and tests.

Unit Assessments

Unit assessments help evaluate student knowledge of related concepts taught during a specific period of time. They typically take place at the end of an instructional unit and can include performance tasks as well as tests. An end-of-unit assessment can be a teacher-created assessment or a common assessment created by the grade level or school division.