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Quality Assessments should contain these elements clear purpose, clear learning targets, sound assessment design, recognizing strength and weaknesses in students and how your roadmap (assessment) will address those, effective communication and student involvement.

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-have a clear purpose to the assessment
-specific standards/learning targets
-match question/assessment type to category of learning target
-keep everything balanced (meet different needs)

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Quality is giving assessments that are culturally responsive to each student. This includes having clear and precise goals, having the students involved, and communicating the results.

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Quality assessment would need to include elements of the 5 keys.
Clear Purpose, Clear Learning Target, Sound assessment design, Effective communication of results, student involvement in the process.
We feel with the lower grade levels if we keep it fun and interactive thru games and whole class challenges that include assessments imbedded this will tend to have higher engagement and better results.

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1) A clear purpose
2) Clear learning targets
3) Sound assessment design (the questions on the test match what you have taught/want to assess), questions that are clear in what they are asking. We also talked about some pitfalls of multiple-choice questions on tests.
4) Effective communication of results
5) Student involvement in the assessment process

Exit tickets can be as rigorous as the lesson and if done frequently are a great assessment to do.

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Before you have a good assessment, you need to have a clear purpose, targets, student involvement, and pathways.

Knowing the outcome and indicators

Matching or making sure what your are assessing aligns with the skill or level of thinking. So not using multiple choice for a reasoning skill.

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Group 12 | Quality Assessment Characteristics 

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Group 12 | Quality Assessment Characteristics 

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Quality assessments include a mechanism for students to monitor progress, written targets in terms students understand, and a road map derived from the designated targets.

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We deem quality as something that validates the content taught, is a clear structured assessment that aligns with standards. Quality assessments effectively measure what students have learned across curricula and are structured with clear language and/or tools that were used during instruction. Lastly, quality assessments are ones in which the students have stake in and take responsibility for their learning. KEEP IT CLEAR and KEEP IT CONCISE!

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Effective communication of results is a key to success - if assessments are not used to guide instruction and help students move forward, they are not being utilized the way they should be. Teachers need to know what to do with the data once they have it.

Elliott, Nate, Steven

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Group 8: What makes for a quality assessment?

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Group 8: What makes for a quality assessment?

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An assessment's quality is dependent on its ability to determine a student's understanding of a particular subject or context. A quality assessment is one that allows the assessor to effectively influence instruction based on the results. An assessment that does not yield accurate, actionable data does not meet the criteria for a quality assessment.

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In order to create a quality assessment, you need to not only delve into the student data, but comprehend and formulate what to do with it. These serve as foundations in creating a thorough and accessible assessment that not only challenges students, but understands their current or past skill set and understanding of the given subject(s).

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Quality gives you good information. It's only good information if it's aligned with the standards and you can see it clearly. It must be defined effectively and make sense in relation to the mastery being evaluated. There should be measurable ways to show student improvement.