Assessment Mapping
Objective:
Topic
To provide teachers and teacher teams with a tool they can use to create and/or
evaluate their assessment/standard alignment.
1e: Designing Student Assessment
This tool is helpful for:
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Professional Learning Communities
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Mentoring/Coaching Relationships
Grade Level Team Meetings
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Pre/Post Observation Conversations
ILTs
Classroom Observations
PD Meetings
Mixed Grade/Subject Meetings
Framework for Teaching Connections:
Connections to the
Framework:
Grade:
Audience
Subject:
1e: Designing Student Assessment
3d: Using Assessment in Instruction
All grades
All subjects
Why Do It:
Planning is an essential part of teaching. As teachers we spend hours trying to plan out
the perfect lesson. But all of that planning is pointless if our students are unable to show they
understood the content we taught. In order to see if your kids ‘got it’ you must first make sure
that your assessment aligns with the standard(s) you taught. In order to be rated proficient in
Component 1e a teacher must include in their plans an assessment that “ is aligned with the
standards-based learning objectives identified for the unit and/or lesson.” If this is an area in
which you feel you need help building capacity in then this is the tool for you.
How This Tool Works:
First identify the standard you plan to teach. Write your standard down in the first
column:
What standards will be
taught?
How will students
show they mastered
this standard?
Differentiation-High
(How will you
challenge your higher
students ?)
Differentiation- Intervention
(How will you assess those
students who need more
support?)
CCSS RL. 1.1 Ask and answer
questions about details in a
text
Then think how the students will be assessed. What do you want them to be able to do at
the end of your teaching cycle? Place that information in the second column like this:
What standards will be
taught?
How will students
show they mastered
this standard?
Students will be able to
CCSS RL. 1.1 Ask and answer answer teacher-created
questions about details in a questions about the
text
story The Three LIttle
Pigs after repeated
readings of the text.
Differentiation-High
(How will you
challenge your higher
students ?)
Differentiation- Intervention
(How will you assess those
students who need more
support?)
You can even use this tool to plan differentiated assessments for your students!
What standards will be
taught?
How will students
show they mastered
this standard?
Differentiation-High
(How will you
challenge your higher
students ?)
Differentiation- Intervention
(How will you assess those
students who need more
support?)
Students will be able to
CCSS RL. 1.1 Ask and answer answer teacher-created
questions about details in a questions about the
text
story The Three LIttle
Pigs after repeated
readings of the text.
These students will use
the text The Three Little
Pigs to create 4
questions they would
like to ask the wolf.
They will use the events
in the text to develop
possible answers to
their questions.
These students will be asked to
draw/orally respond to these
prompts:
Draw a character from the story
Draw one kind of house that the
pigs built.
Draw the character that blew the
house down
Takeaways:
Using this tool helps teachers to plan out assessments aligned with the standards they plan to
teach as well as to plan differentiated assessments for their students. While this tool is best
to use while you are planning your lessons it can be used as a reflection tool after a teacher’s
plans have been completed for coaches/mentors/teacher teams to assess and evaluate the
current assessment alignment occurring in your school.
ASSESSMENT MAPPING TOOL
What standards will be
taught?
How will students show
they mastered this
standard?
Differentiation-High
(How will you challenge
your higher students?)
Differentiation- Intervention (How
will you assess those students
who need more support?)