Assessment Toolkit by Kylie Payne

Various Online Assessment Tools

kyliepayne2 — 2025-03-25 01:23:22 UTC

These are great digital tools for formative and summative assessment that provide a variety of modes for students.

Magic School AI

kyliepayne2 — 2025-03-25 01:27:13 UTC

This AI tool can help generate rubrics using specific outcomes and criteria. It can also create quiz questions, lesson plan ideas and more, but professional judgement is required to make it more effective.

Diffit

kyliepayne2 — 2025-03-25 01:29:18 UTC

Diffit is a tool that will differentiate text for different grade levels. It helps to reach students where they are at and can help to make assessments more accessible.

Standardized Tests

kyliepayne2 — 2025-03-25 01:34:08 UTC

My mentor teacher showed me these early years literacy and numeracy screens that are mandatory to complete from the Alberta government. The tests are to ensure students receive early intervention as they are the foundation to future learning.

PE Assessment

kyliepayne2 — 2025-03-25 22:37:05 UTC

A variety of formative and summative assessments that can be used to assess students in the PE setting.

Math Assessment

kyliepayne2 — 2025-03-25 22:40:06 UTC

List of assessments that can be used before learning, during, or after specifically for math.

Math Worksheets

kyliepayne2 — 2025-03-25 22:41:30 UTC

Math worksheets that can be used to assess student learning or monitor progress in a variety of units.

Math Differentiation Ideas

kyliepayne2 — 2025-03-25 22:50:17 UTC

How to differentiate learning and assessments for students in the math classroom to remove any limitations to them demonstrating understanding.

Content and Product Differentiation

kyliepayne2 — 2025-03-25 22:52:41 UTC

Ideas on differentiating the content and the final product for student work to ensure the assessment is attainable for each student.

How to View Exceeding

kyliepayne2 — 2025-03-25 22:55:06 UTC

This blog changed how I view excelling. It should be seen as the next level after meeting, still within grade level and students should be encouraged to further their learning and reach it.

The Consortium

kyliepayne2 — 2025-03-31 17:35:20 UTC

This website provides lesson plans and assessments for a variety of subjects and grades.

Learning by Inquiry

kyliepayne2 — 2025-03-31 19:09:46 UTC

Promotes inquiry learning in every subject to promote critical thinking skills. A great way to promote higher-order thinking and make real-world connections.

I Can Statements

kyliepayne2 — 2025-04-03 22:24:34 UTC

I can statements to support EAL learners. These would be helpful when writing ISP's or creating specific goals for students.

The Value of I Can Statements

kyliepayne2 — 2025-04-03 22:35:55 UTC

This research article discusses the positive impact of teacher clarity around the lesson's learning target on students. Students who know what the lesson is about, why they are learning it, and how they will be assessed reach a higher level of learning.

Peer and Self-Assessment Tools

kyliepayne2 — 2025-04-03 22:39:56 UTC

This website provides different assessment ideas specifically for self and peer assessment to help students give effective feedback.

How to Teach Students Self and Peer Assessment

kyliepayne2 — 2025-04-03 22:43:32 UTC

This blog discusses the steps of how to incorporate self and peer assessment into your classroom and teach students to be effective at giving feedback to peers and to themselves.

Inkwire

kyliepayne2 — 2025-04-03 22:47:25 UTC

My mentor teacher shared this AI tool with me that helps teachers create and brainstorm high-quality project-based learning assignments. This is great for assessment as it allows students to apply their learning which is higher Bloom's.

Curipod

kyliepayne2 — 2025-04-03 22:54:47 UTC

Real-time answers from students, exit tickets, test prep, writing assessment, and data collection through reports on student work.

Eduaide

kyliepayne2 — 2025-04-03 22:57:24 UTC

This tool has the option to align to a specific curriculum and helps to create lessons and assessments that can be differentiated.

Mote

kyliepayne2 — 2025-04-03 23:02:49 UTC

Tool for providing recorded verbal feedback to students or to read question text to students who do not have those skills yet. A great differentiation skill for diverse learners or younger grades.

Test-Taking Strategies

kyliepayne2 — 2025-04-03 23:37:24 UTC

This reading about teaching test-taking strategies to students was an ah-ha moment for me because we can't just assume that students know how to or that a pervious teacher taught them.

Aligning Assessments, Learning Objectives, and Instruction

kyliepayne2 — 2025-04-03 23:40:41 UTC

This topic is one of my biggest takeaways from this course: the importance of aligning learning objectives with assessments and instructional activities for the best learning to occur.

Math Up - One Column Rubric

kyliepayne2 — 2025-04-04 01:57:01 UTC

My mentor teacher used Math up in my practicum, which supplied teachers with assessments for the different units. I like the one-column rubric for math as there is plenty of room for comments and evidence of learning for each outcome.

Creating Meaningful Grades

kyliepayne2 — 2025-04-04 02:00:50 UTC

This article is really inspiring and a good reminder always to be purposeful with what you are choosing to grade and what those grades mean. Grades should have a clear meaning and be representative of student learning.

Formative Assessment Ideas

kyliepayne2 — 2025-04-04 02:04:51 UTC

This document supplies teachers with a wide range of formative assessments to use to ensure students are given different modes to demonstrate learning.

Boom

kyliepayne2 — 2025-04-04 02:19:38 UTC

The students use this website when they have extra time to practice literacy and numeracy skills. The website saves the students' results for the teacher to see what they may need support with.