Purpose Gallery Walk by

jfitzgerald96 — 2025-02-04 00:04:12 UTC

Assessment Purpose Gallery Walk

Create a post describing an assessment purpose in either an educational or professional setting
For each post, include:
- The specific setting where the assessment is used
- The primary purpose of the assessment
- Key stakeholders who use the results
- A real-world example

Remember to be specific and provide concrete examples to illustrate your points.

Mid-Project Speed Critique Formative Assessment

2025-06-05 21:59:39 UTC

Students are set up in a "speed dating" style. Students have to talk about each other's projects and give critques and feedback. They then move along in the rotation.

Setting:

Art room

Stakeholders:

Students - able to give and receive feedback
Teacher - feedback is not solely from teacher, teacher is guiding the speed critique.

Purpose:

The purpose is to gain feedback in the middle of a project to gain advice and see what they should maybe change and what is going well.

Real-world example:

Ceramics class - ceramic critique

Caroline and Ed

edwarddot — 2025-06-05 22:01:15 UTC

Purpose of assessment is to evaluate understanding in students and use that information to guide further instruction or strategies.

Example: Caroline works in a Montessori school with 2 year olds and used developmental screening based on each individual child age to asses in 6 different areas: Cognitive, physical development (large and fine motor skills), language development, social, self help skills, emotional. This information is used to track progress and allow them to move forward to next goals for their age group and prepare students for future.

DIBELS Literacy Assessment (Francesca, Nohemie, Matt)

2025-06-05 22:04:03 UTC

DIBELS (Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills) is a series of brief, timed assessments used to screen and monitor the development of early literacy skills in students. Students are given one minute to show competency in these domains: oral reading fluency, letter naming, phonemic awareness, nonsense word fluency, and reading comprehension. Students are assessed three times a year (beginning, middle, end).