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Before starting, what do students know? How can I use learning assessments to help me understand where students are at the start of a unit?

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Develop a multiple choice question will carefully designed answers to help you see the different levels of understanding. Work with a colleague since this can be challenging.
Source: National Council on Measurement

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As a formative assessment, these can be used in a variety of ways. Consider before starting that students might need training in how to build these and creating your own first with some fill in, or allow students to add to a basic map through the unit, could be a way to help them develop this skill.

According to the Center for Teaching, the following concept map strategies can be used as formative assessment:
- Have students map previously assigned readings
- Have students map their small-group discussions of a given topic
- Have students map a summary of a given set of class periods
- Have students map topics that they don’t quite understand or would like to know more about (these maps should be addressed in small- or large-group discussions)
Sources: https://teach.its.uiowa.edu/sites/teach.its.uiowa.edu/files/docs/docs/Assessing_and_Evaluating_Concept_Maps_ed.pdf
http://archive.wceruw.org/cl1/flag/cat/conmap/conmap7.htm
https://www.ncme.org/resources/formative

Or click below to start simple!

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Ask students to share their perceptions of understanding of a concept. Consider how to plan this before using it to strategically check which concepts or skills might need to review. This also falls under the peer assessment/self assessment section next.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1d7RQoO3gwTCd0EHdJMlPhV6E2NDmC1gn/view?usp=sharing

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Sometimes it helps to know what others think of the work. It also offers a good chance for students to see other approaches that may be different from their own.

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Research background about why you should include more self and peer assessment.

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Research background about why you should include more self and peer assessment.

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These can be used as brief breaks that can help both student and teacher to know where learning is currently. These can be helpful when used as breaks between concepts, or before building further or going deeper into a topic.

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This is a guided process to support giving feedback to others on their work. It could also be adapted to use as self-assessment.