Assessment Toolkit by Neleh Bryksa

Assessment and Student Success in a Differentiated Classroom

nelehbryksa — 2024-01-04 18:38:30 UTC

This is a great resource to look at the different ways to assess students in order to differentiate and align with curriculum outcomes.

Kahoot

nelehbryksa — 2024-01-04 18:51:33 UTC

Kahoot is a great website to assess students' understanding in a fun way!

EdPuzzle

nelehbryksa — 2024-01-04 18:54:10 UTC

Edpuzzle is a website where you can assign videos to students that have prompts within them!

Differentiated Assessment

nelehbryksa — 2024-01-04 18:58:47 UTC

This website provides lots of information about differentiation, and provides a number of assessment related books that can be purchased to help teachers with assessment.

Writing a Rubric

nelehbryksa — 2024-01-04 19:02:45 UTC

This is a great resource for things to consider when building a rubric for assessment.

Exit Slips

nelehbryksa — 2024-01-04 19:08:36 UTC

Exit slips are a quick and easy way to see where students are at with understanding before moving on to new content areas.

Defining Assessment

nelehbryksa — 2024-01-11 17:29:08 UTC

This PDF identifies what assessment is, as well as the different kinds of assessment and their purposes.

Create your own Authentic Assessment

nelehbryksa — 2024-01-11 17:31:33 UTC

This website has a number of tips and tools to keep in mind when building an assessment tool for students.

Why Is Assessment Important?

nelehbryksa — 2024-01-11 18:20:39 UTC

This is a great website for the importance of assessment and what it does for both students and teachers.

Outcome-Based Rubrics

nelehbryksa — 2024-01-31 18:32:51 UTC

This is a great resource for understanding what words used in your rubric really mean!

How to Give Feedback

nelehbryksa — 2024-02-01 17:32:05 UTC

This is a great website for the HOW and WHY we should be giving feedback to students frequently.

Feedback and Assessment

nelehbryksa — 2024-02-01 20:02:14 UTC

This site has great information on what feedback is, and how to incorporate into assessment.

Student-Centered Assessment

nelehbryksa — 2024-02-02 02:57:06 UTC

This forum provides a number of ways to include student-centred assessment options in order to develop student understanding.

Formative Assessment

nelehbryksa — 2024-02-05 21:13:14 UTC

This article provides great information on what formative assessment is, and how to get students towards an end goal.

Summative Assessment

nelehbryksa — 2024-02-05 21:14:50 UTC

This article provides information on what summative assessment really is, and compares it to formative assessment to help understand when to use which.

Performance Assessment Differentiation

nelehbryksa — 2024-02-05 21:16:23 UTC

This PDF provides a number of differentiated assessment examples to use for performance assessment in the classroom!

Assessment Examples

nelehbryksa — 2024-02-05 21:18:48 UTC

This website has a number of great tools. This specific article provides summative examples, while also providing a deeper understanding of both summative and formative assessment.

Cooperative Learning Strategies

nelehbryksa — 2024-02-05 21:23:34 UTC

Kagan provides great information about why cooperative learning is important in the classroom. These activities can be used for formative assessment as students build their own understanding.

Assessment VS Evaluation

nelehbryksa — 2024-02-06 19:19:24 UTC

This article provides great insight on the differences between assessment and evaluation to help deepen understanding of when to use them.

Principles & Methods of Assessment

nelehbryksa — 2024-02-06 19:21:28 UTC

This site provides a number of methods of assessment, and highlights the importance of differentiating your assessment to fit your students' learning needs.

Making Feedback Count

nelehbryksa — 2024-02-06 19:22:49 UTC

This article provides great information on why assessment feedback is important, and what meaningful feedback really is.

Portfolios

nelehbryksa — 2024-02-06 19:24:48 UTC

This site provides information on what a proper portfolio should look like when looking at assessment activities.

Google Forms

nelehbryksa — 2024-02-06 19:29:46 UTC

Google forms is a great way to identify where your students are feeling. This can be used as an online exit slip, or as in-class activities.

Assessment Activities

nelehbryksa — 2024-02-06 19:31:50 UTC

This site provides a number of ways to formatively assess your students in the classroom, while also building on their own understandings.

Seesaw

nelehbryksa — 2024-02-06 21:39:14 UTC

Seesaw is a great site to keep teachers, students, and guardians on the same page about where students are at academically, and can keep track of progress.

Plickers

nelehbryksa — 2024-02-08 16:29:01 UTC

Plickers is a great activity for checking student understanding, without making who is wrong obvious. My mentor teacher introduced me to this activity in my third year practicum!

ATA Assessment Library

nelehbryksa — 2024-02-08 16:31:23 UTC

This website provides a number of books involving the different kinds of assessment, what it is, and how to use it. My mentor teacher from my third year practicum introduced me to this virtual library.

LearnAlberta

nelehbryksa — 2024-02-08 16:34:46 UTC

LearnAlberta provides a number of resources and activities for lessons and assessment once you create an account and log in. My mentor teacher introduced me to this website in my third year practicum.

Differentiated Feedback

nelehbryksa — 2024-02-08 16:41:11 UTC

Assessment feedback should be individual to each student. This article provides great information on differentiated feedback, and feedback with assessment.

EPSB

nelehbryksa — 2024-02-08 16:58:02 UTC

This website provides a number of assessment resources, as well as a number of other teacher, student and parent resources.

Eduaide

nelehbryksa — 2024-02-08 17:01:15 UTC

This is an educational AI that can be useful for creating rubrics, lesson plans, or for getting ideas!

Student-Center Activities

nelehbryksa — 2024-02-08 17:05:07 UTC

This website provides a number of activities that are student-centred. This provides differentiation in the classroom.

Closing the Gap

nelehbryksa — 2024-02-13 22:31:28 UTC

This blog provides great information about assessment and feedback while building student success.

Rubrics

nelehbryksa — 2024-02-14 18:30:35 UTC

This website provides information on the types of rubrics, and how to use them!

Performance Assessments

nelehbryksa — 2024-03-19 16:33:57 UTC

This website provides great activities as well as materials to use for performance assessments in the classroom!

Assessment 101

nelehbryksa — 2024-03-19 16:35:09 UTC

This website provides great information on what assessment really is, and the key principles to include in assessments!

Subjective VS Objective

nelehbryksa — 2024-03-19 16:36:50 UTC

This article provides information on both subjective and objective assessments and helps us understand when to use each.

Simple Assesment Strategies

nelehbryksa — 2024-04-08 17:08:45 UTC

This source has lots of easy strategies to use in the classroom when it comes to assessment. These activities can be formative and summative!

Formative Assessment Strategies

nelehbryksa — 2024-04-08 17:10:02 UTC

This source has lots of assessment strategies to use in a formative setting. These are great for checking student understanding and planning for the next steps.

Meaningful Feedback

nelehbryksa — 2024-04-08 17:11:44 UTC

This site shines light on why teachers should provide students with meaningful feedback, while also helping us identify what meaningful feedback is.