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It's always a good idea to vary the types of assessments we use to provide all students a way to express their learning. Authentic assessment can include many of the following:

Representations such as InfoGraphics

Essays or Audio; Interviews or Podcasts

Performance tasks

Exhibitions and demonstrations via Video

Portfolios

Journals or Blogs

Teacher-created tests

Rubrics

Self- and peer-evaluation

Notice that in these, the student is at the center of the experience, and they are less about what students produce, than the actual process of putting them together.

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This Big Idea is all about using time flexibly. With traditional assessment, we might rely on a test that we give during a class period or quizzes given on specific days of the week. To spread assessment over time, you might consider chunking up assessments into smaller tasks, or looking at the body of their work over a given time to assess progress. Some additional ideas include:

Asking students to do 'student led conferences' to share what they think their progress is like

Developing ways for students to be 'meta' about their work, such as with self-assessments

Creating longer timelines for students to complete tasks by stretching learning over the course of a week with smaller informal 'check-ins'

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Listen to a coach's take below. Other ideas include:

Focus on the positive!  Motivating and encouraging students is key

Ask students to complete a rubric as a self assessment when they hand in an assignment

Leveraging peers as the people to give glows and grows on assignments

Celebrate examples of student work in videos or emails

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I use a strategy called Delay a Grade to give students the opportunity to get feedback on their work and revise their work before submitting it for a grade. This has taken so much pressure off of my students and really given them the opportunity to learn from their mistakes before moving on to the next topic.

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Creating a portfolio of work over time!

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"I started using ClassKick because we have touch screen Chromebooks, and we wanted to have something that would allow us to see student math work in real time. That way, instead of just right/wrong we can give real feedback. On some questions, we make it open-ended and allow students to see each other's thinking. Leveraging audio is also nice to make sure all learners can respond."
-Mr. Sepak

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"We wanted to focus on more of a student centered-style approach rather than have to worry about grading 9th grade students, knowing that would stress them out and they would probably look up the answers. I think we realized that students need different ways to show us what they know, some like traditional, others like video. We landed on a choice playlist, where students could pick at the end of the week how they wanted to be assessed. We used DeckToys to create pathways where they could choose routes and options over a 2 week period of time." - Ms. Delacruz

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"We use Seesaw to capture student work in a variety of different ways. Their reading audio helps us to do fluency checks and give feedback, while taking a picture of their writing and sending it in makes it possible for even young students to write without typing."
-Mr. Halvidier

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A great tool for instant feedback is Socrative. You can set answers as 'correct' and allow students to work through at their own pace, or in real time. You can even make quizzes into a collaborative game.

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Students need to be comfortable in how they are being assessed, so providing different opportunities (such as a recording vs a live presentation) can be so much more successful!

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This teacher creates daily calendars to lay out expectations. Students can work at their own pace to complete tasks and there is clarity about how the teacher will be checking progress.

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With Quizizz, students can engage on an interactive game at their own pace (unlike let's say Kahoot). As they play they get instant feedback on their answers. There are tons of free quiz resources on the site.

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Using a tool like DeckToys (see video below) can create playlists for students to work through tasks at their own pace in a gamified platform. This can help motivate students, but also create benchmarks opportunities to assess their understanding as they move through the playlist.

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Creating a hyperdoc in a Google Doc can help students chunk their tasks into more manageable steps. Building in mini assessment check-ins throughout an extended learning sequence can give you the chance to see how students are doing! Check out the 1st grade example below, this 3rd grade example, or this 8th grade example.

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Animal Habitat HyperDoc by Amanda Young First Grade

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Using virtual whiteboards in an in-person classroom, such as whiteboard.fi, can give you the chance to give feedback on individual students' work

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Giving students more than one way to share what they know, and time and space to figure it out can be great!

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These can be popular ways to promote ongoing learning and reflection, and a great way to incorporate a mix of academic and social emotional writing. Tech tools like EduBlog, Seesaw, and KidBlog can be great for this!

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Use small groups to give students voice!

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Use small groups to give students voice!

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When students are working in small groups, they often have more confidence in their learning because they have the opportunity to bounce ideas off of a peer. Creating chances for students to work together can build those safe spaces!

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Individual Student's Flipgrid to Record Progress Over Time

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Individual Student's Flipgrid to Record Progress Over Time