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Assessment…40 Quick Ways to
Engage & Assess All Learners
Mary Ashby
Teacher Consultant
CLC Network
Common Core Standards
State Content Standards
Our learning goals must
be clear and on target
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Write Standards into Student Friendly Terms!
“I Can Statements”
_____Identify sources of heat energy
_____Identify properties of heat energy
_____Explain how energy can be transformed from
one form to another.
_____Illustrate how energy is transformed into heat in
electrical circuits.
_____Draw a diagram showing what happens with
heat energy in convection.
_____Draw a diagram showing what happens with
heat energy in radiation.
_____Draw a diagram showing what happens with
heat energy in conduction.
_____Explain about heat energy to another classmate
and my parents.
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3 Types of Assessment
1. Pre-Assessment (Finding out)
Pre-test, Inventory, KWL, Checklist, Observation,
Self-evaluation
2. Formative Assessment (Keeping track and
checking up)
Small group check-ins, Exit cards, Quiz, Journal
Entry, Self-evaluation
3. Summative Assessment (Making sure)
Assessment at the conclusion of a unit:
Unit test, Product/Exhibit, Demonstration, Report,
etc...
Formative Assessment
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Research: Keep Kids Actively
Involved With Learning
When information is stored in one or more of
these systems (visual, auditory, kinesthetic)
memory is improved. Memory stored in
the kinesthetic system evokes the
longest memory.
Assessment Goals:
Understand Our Learners
Every Student Responds
Keep Students Actively Engaged
Learning Pyramid
Where would you put these on this
learning pyramid?
5%
Practice by Doing
Reading
Discussion Group
Audio-Visual
Teach Others
Demonstration
Lecture
Learning Pyramid
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What comes to mind when you
see this picture?
If we teach it, will they learn it?
"I Taught It.
It's Up to Students to Learn It."
" Teaching isn't just telling or
presenting. Accomplished
teachers present in such a
manner that students find the
information and skills meaningful
and reach understanding.”
-Mark Twain
Just because we taught it,
doesn’t mean they caught it!!!
COLLEGE EXAM ANSWERS
Magnet: “Something you find crawling all over a
dead cat.
To prevent contraception: wear a condominium.
For fainting: Rub the person’s chest or, if a lady,
rub her arm above the hand instead. Or put the
head between the knees of the nearest medical
doctor.
Genetics explain why you look like your father
and if you don’t why you should.
Think about different ways
to assess your students...
“No Two the Same”
To ensure a fair
selection you all get
the same test. You
must all climb that
tree.
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When you ask questions, who typically
responds? Why?
What happens over time to the nonresponders? What might you see by the
time these students are in middle school?
How do we create an environment in which
all students respond?
40 Strategies to Engage & Assess
Your Students
1. Personal Meter/Movable Fan
Pro/Con
Understand/Frustrated
Sticky tack to put on
desk
Identify numbers, letters,
shapes
Identify math facts
Show the capital of the
state…
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I sort of get it
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I get it!
I don’t
get it!
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2. Post-It Note Chart
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Tyrone
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Maddie
Isaac
Quinton
Macey
Ezra
Abby
Eli
Tiesha
Cassie
No clue
I’ve
heard of
this.
Jay-Jay
I know a I’m an
lot about expert on
this.
this.
3.Twittering
H. S.
Summarize the lesson using 140 characters
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4. Playing Cards
Teacher asks each student to choose a
card from a deck of playing cards
With partners students discuss a question
or problem given to them by the teacher.
Teacher says, “all black cards stand” or “all
Jacks” stand. The teacher will then choose
someone to answer.
5. Jigsaw Groups
Groups work on different sections of a
text and become experts on that
information. Then restructure the
groups so that each new group has
one member from each section. Each
expert will share their information with
the new group.
6. Wipe Off Magnets
Business Card Magnets with laminated cardstock
Use wipe-off markers to reuse
Examples:
Place historical events in order, or parts of a story
Group words into parts of speech categories
Pairing algebraic equations with correct answers
Venn diagrams
Food webs
ABC order
7. Circular Check
Groups: First student completes the first step of a
problem without help from others, passes it to the
next student who corrects any mistakes and
completes the next step…repeat until correct.
Student #1
Student #4
Student #2
Student #3
8. 10 – 2 Connect
Teacher lectures for 10 minutes,
stops for 2 min. for students to share
notes, fill in gaps, talk about key
concepts, not allowed to talk with the
teacher
9. Cup It/Card Sideways
Each student has 3 different colored plastic cups
Amy
Yellow = knows the answer
Green = doesn’t know
Orange = knows some of it
OR
Yellow =I understand this,
Green = I don’t get it,
Orange =I’m a little confused
The student stack the
cups, the one that is
put on top is the
student’s response.
10. Bubble Wrap Response
H. S.
Pop a bubble if:
You hear… a noun, fact, opinion, the sculptor of
this piece, a word that rhymes with “hat”, if you
hear a song from the Renaissance Period…
You see…a square, President Lincoln, a picture of
a soccer field, a quadrilateral, a plant cell…
11. Detective Tools
Use a flashlight to show certain words in a Big
Book or on a whiteboard
Use your magnifying glass to find this vocabulary
word, noun, compound word, a word that
means…, a word from your spelling list, a word
that rhymes with…
Put an eye on…
12. Cootie Catcher
Facts from worksheet, study guides…
Homework assignment
H. S.
13. Touch Point Coins
Each dot
represents
5…5,10,15
14. Bells on a String
Tap the bells to spell words from spelling lists
Use to teach the ABC’s
b
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c
C
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f
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Write upper case letters on one side and lower on
the other
15. Stretch-ems
Stretch elastic to show students the individual
sounds in words
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sh
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16. Stack-ems
Use for any content that has a correct sequence/
hierarchy or can be categorized
Examples: time lines, steps inn a process,
periodic table, sequence of story, putting words in
alphabetical order
Stacking cups into long e and short e words
H. S.
hat
nap cab
bad sat
tab
hate
lake
nail
wait
sale cane
16. Stack-ems (con’t)
17. Toothbrush Spinners
Learn word families
Practice word families
Assess word families
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18. Hit the Buzzer
Play Jeopardy in teams using the Staples
“That Was Easy” buzzer or a set of 4 from
Learning Resources
OR
Play individually with imaginary buzzer
H. S.
19. Twist & Spell…Twist Math
Facts
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with #
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3 or more
cups with
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abcdef
1 cup with
arrow
20. Participation Punch or
Participation Pizza
Use to assess participation in group work
Punch: Every time someone participates in the
group, assigned puncher” punches the card under
their name
Madison
Eli
Macy
Isaac
Pizza: Each student divides their
own pizza to show how much
group members participated
Sue
Erin
Ben
21. Chain Links
One main question presented to the class, OR ask
students to summarize what they learned
Response written on strip of paper
Chain passed around class, students add their own
link
Teacher reviews chain
Green plants
22. Colorful Speech
Write sentence on the board, using color key ask
students to show the part of speech of each word
using Unifix cubes – hold up cubes
= simple subject
= adjective
= verb
= prep phrase
= article
The small boy played in the mud.
23. Snowball Fight
H. S.
Students write their name on paper and
something learned in class.
They form a large circle, crumple up their paper,
and throw it into the center of the circle.
Everyone picks up a ball and reads it to the class.
Alternative – sets of vocab terms with definitions,
math problems with answers,
study guide questions with
answers.... all on separate
pieces of paper students
crumple throw in middle,
pick up a “snowball” and
find their partner.
24. Online Assignments: Flubaroo
http://www.flubaroo.com/
Grade online assignments in under a
minute!
Get reporting and analysis on student
performance!
Email students their scores with
corrective feedback
24. Online Assignments: Kahoot
https://getkahoot.com/
Promotes a social, fun, and game-like
environment
Create and play quizzes, discussions or
even surveys (which are called
Kahoots) using any device with a web
browser… including a laptop, iPad, iPhone,
iPod, Android, Chromebook, Windows
Phone or PC
Students are challenged to create their
own Kahoots (quizzes)
Kahoot
25. Swiss Cheese Time Tables
Student puts his pencil through one of the small
numbers and multiplies it time the large poster
board number, then he flips the number over while
keeping his pencil in the hole to see the answer.
2
9
8
3
5
7
4
6
26. Word Toss or Word Splash
Treaty of Ghent
Battleship named "The Merrimac"
27. Inside Outside Circle
An inside and an outside circle of students
face each other. Each student is standing
across from a partner. Students quiz each
other with questions. The inside circle
moves to create new partners.
28. White Boards/Plastic Plates
H. S.
States and capitals
Math facts
Fractions
Measuring Angles
Telling Time
Mm
Lowes $14.00 for 24 white boards
29. Highlighting Tape/Wikki Sticks
After reading a portion from a text, ask students
questions and have them use their highlighter tape
to indicate the correct answer
Highlight the topic sentence....Highlight the main
point of this paragraph...
Highlight the name of....the date that....key word in
the sentence....verb...pronoun
Can keep strips on laminated 4X6 card so you can
reuse
30. Vote With Your Feet
Agree Disagree
Totally Understand/Totally Lost
Build it, Draw it, Act it out, Sing about
it, Tell about it
AGREE
DISAGREE
31. Note on a Stick
fact/opinion
◊ verb/noun
true/false,
◊ short/long
shapes, colors…square,◊ hold up the yellow
circle, red....
◊ multiple choice
Lend me an ear…eye
true
ADJECTIVE
32. Roll Off
Write a question someone should be able to answer
after hearing this lesson
Explain the most important ideas in the lesson in a
way an elementary student could understand.
Draw a picture that represents the main idea of the
lesson.
Tell which part of the lesson is the most confusing
If you were going to learn more about this topic, what
would you choose to investigate
Write a headline for a newspaper article about today's
lesson.
32. Roll Off …#2
In pairs, students decide who is going to be
“odd” and who is going to be “even.”
The teacher asks a question or gives a
problem, and the partners discuss how to
answer it.
The teacher rolls the dice, and if it’s even
the “even” students stand, and the teacher
will call on one of them to answer. If an
odd number is rolled, the “odd” students
stand.
33. White Board Race
H. S.
Divide students into team, divide whiteboard into
sections, give the teams a question/problem, give
2 minutes to discuss with group, when teacher
says “Go” alternating team members rush to
board to answer the question
Team 1
Team 2
Team 3
Team 4
34. Windshield Check
CLEAR – “I get it”
BUGS – “I get it for the most part, but I still have a
few questions”
MUD – “I still don’t get it…I’m stuck!”
35. Learning Styles
An Easy Way to Assess
H. S.
36. Graffiti Wall
H S
Put topic(s) on large butcher block paper, students
must make a note and draw a picture about it and sign
their name before leaving the room.
VIETNAM WAR
President Johnson was the one
who decided the US should
become involved…. Tyler
Troy
The war put the
US in debt by
146 million
dollars. Ronnie
Kenna
37. Soccer Ball Assessment
H. S.
Number the sections of a soccer ball
Pass around the room answering math facts or
study sheet questions.
38. Exit or Entrance Cards
Definition
Information
Equations
Examples
Non-Examples
38. Exit or Entrance Cards
a school because
a car because
A cell is like…
a television because
a book because
38. Exit or Entrance Cards
EXIT CARD
Draw a graph and label the “x” and “y”
axes
Graph a line with the endpoint (2,5) (8,3)
Graph a line with the endpoint (-2,-5) (8,3)
38. Exit
or Entrance
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Entrance Cards
38. Exit or Entrance Cards
EXIT CARD
Write a step by step set of
directions, including diagrams and
computations, to show someone
who has been absent how to do the
kind of problems we’ve worked with
this week.
38. Exit or Entrance Cards
EXIT CARD
Rate yourself from 1-10 on how well you
understand everything today.
1--------------------------------5--------------------------------10
Low
Average
High
One thing that the teacher could do to help me
understand things better is....
One thing that I do that helps me learn best is........
39. Alphabet Graffitti
Group Activity
Number 1’s – Material Managers
Number 2’s – Recorders
Number 3’s – Reporters
Number 4”s – Spies
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Graffiti Alphabet
From Fogarty &
Pete – Wildly
Exciting, 2010
ASSESSMENT
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#40
ZAP
(Like Password)
A Vocabulary Review Activity
H. S.
The PASSWORD is…
Summative
The PASSWORD is…
I can statements
The PASSWORD is…
Formative
High School Students Top 10 Picks
#1 Tie: ZAP & Hit the Buzzer
#2 Snowball Fight
#3 White Board Race
#4 Soccer Ball Assessment
#5 Learning Styles
#6 Cootie Catcher
#7 Stack ‘ems
#8 Back to Back White Boards
#9 Bubble Wrap
#10 Twittering
High
School
“Assessment is today’s means of
modifying tomorrow’s instruction.”
-Carol Ann Tomlinson
Assessment has more to do
with helping students grow
than with cataloging their
mistakes.
-Carol Ann Tomlinson
Whatever it Takes!