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Example: Brigance Early Childhood Screen III-3-5 years old

Developmental screening provides a useful snapshot of a child’s development at a particular point in time. The screeners measure mastery of early development and academic skills in assessing a child’s school readiness. Educators also use screening to readily identify potential developmental delays and giftedness and to plan for interventions.

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Example: Beginning of Year Assessment

Teacher created quick assessment to identify child's skills in literacy and math for pre-k standards ie. writing name, identifying letters in name, counting, identifying colors, shapes, and numbers 0-5. It is used to get a snapshot of what skills a child is entering pre-k with.

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Example: Student created project based on English book read in class (Grapes of Wrath)

Students use a rubric set by teacher to demonstrate their own learning and understanding of book in whatever given method they choose: writing a song/album, essay, making a TV commercial, scrapbook, or brochure. Students share their chosen performance task with classmates and teachers.

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Example: Quick Check

During a lesson, teacher can do a quick check with thumbs up/down or on white boards to assess students' learning of the topic/standard of the lesson.

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Example: Quizzes

Weekly quiz given during unit lessons to assess what students' understanding and learning are at currently. Teachers can provide feedback to students and identify what areas need to be retaught or if class is ready to move on to a new unit/topic.

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Example: Exit Ticket

Exit ticket is used at the end of classroom lesson to assess students' understanding and learning of the topic of lesson. It informs the teacher of what all students have learned and which steps are needed to reteach or advance to the next lesson.

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Example: My Teaching Strategies Gold

Pre-k students are assessed on developmental objectives/standards in areas of physical: fine motor, gross motor; social/emotional, cognitive, language/communication, literacy, and math. Students are observed by teachers and data is recorded online to level students' performance over a checkpoint period which is finalized 3 times during the school year: Fall (Oct), Winter (Feb), and Spring (April/May).

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Example: Quizzes

Quizzes are given to assess students' learning and understanding of a topic, lesson, or standard. Data collected will inform teacher if students are ready for more advanced topics/next unit or lesson or if reteaching needs to occur prior to advancing lessons.

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Example: Final Paper/Exam

Student's learning of a class is assessed using a final paper or exam at the end of the unit or class. This data is used by teacher, admin, or department/college to assess the overall learning.

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Example: First Grade Unit 1 Math Test

All teachers in first grade give the unit 1 math test at the end of the unit to assess the students' learning of that unit and compare with other classes in the grade level.

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Example: MAPS Growth

It measures achievement and growth in K-12 math, reading, language, and science. Informs how students are performing in relation to their grade level standard (below, at, or above).

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Example: Developmental Profile 4 (DP-4)

Assesses child in the areas of physical, adaptive behavior, social-emotional, cognitive, and communication. It has norm based standard scores, percentiles, and age equivalent descriptive ranges.

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Example: Advanced Placement Exam

AP exams are standardized and criterion-referenced exams designed to measure how well a student has mastered the content and skills of a specific AP course. Most AP courses have an end-of-year exam.

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Example: ACT

The ACT is a standardized test used for college admissions in the United States. It is currently administered by ACT, a nonprofit organization of the same name. The ACT test covers four academic skill areas: English, mathematics, reading, and scientific reasoning. It also offers an optional direct writing test.

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Example: Nevada Smarter Balanced Assessment (SBAC)

The SBAC is a standardized summative assessment given to all students in grades 3-8. It uses computer-adapted and performance tasks to gauge student abilities in reading and math and provide a measure of school accountability.

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Example: Praxis

A Praxis test is one of a series of USA teacher certification exams written and administered by the Educational Testing Service to assess a person's knowledge and skills needed to be prepared in a classroom. Various Praxis tests are usually required to gain a teacher license in the subject area they wish to teach in.