Insightful Assessment Sites

Online Testmaking Resources:

• http://www.edselect.com/quizzes.htm
• http://www.edhelper.com/

ORAL ASSESSMENT:

• http://www.eed.state.ak.us/tls/Frameworks/wrldlang/wlinstr2.html#SampleTasks
• ENGLISH: http://www.eed.state.ak.us/tls/Frameworks/langarts/41task.htm
• MATH/SCIENCE: http://www.eed.state.ak.us/tls/Frameworks/mathsci/ms5_2as1.htm

ASSESSMENT CITATIONS:

• http://teaching.uncc.edu/resources/articles-tutorials/assessments/designing-questions
• http://teaching.uncc.edu/resources/articles-tutorials/assessments/developing-objectives-assessment
• http://tamu.qu.edu.qa/assessment.html
• http://www.eed.state.ak.us/tls/Frameworks/mathsci/ms5_2as1.htm

Best Test Practices:

A Test Worth Taking
Just as teachers vary their instructional techniques to suit different learning styles, they can also create tests that give students choices to show what they know and how they learn best.
Claudia Geocaris and Maria Ross

FORMATTING THE TEST

1. Seems silly but don't forget to put the place for the pupil's name in a prominent position.
2. After using varied questioning strategies to assess knowledge and understanding of concepts, reread and simplifly. Allow sufficient space to provide for teacher comments.
3. A prominently placed key to explain the use of criteria for the assessment with point value of questions or sections.

EVALUATING THE TEST

1. Take the test yourself.
2. Ask THE question: Does the test provide true evidence of what the student has learned.

Differentiating Tests

Using Bloom’s Taxonomy and Multiple Intelligences:

• Start with easiest cognitive questions (matching, T/F questions etc.) and progress to most difficult (essays, story problems, etc.).
• If a student is below level, simply grade completed questions and give them a percentage grade. For example: On a 10 question test, a “below level student” attempts to answer 7 questions. ONLY 5 questions are correct so this student gets 5/7 or 71% (instead of a 50%).
• Alternatively, a “below level” student answers 5 Remembering/Understanding questions correctly. It is the teacher’s decision that this student receives a high grade IF she decides that the student has studied and performed to their highest ability.

Alternate Assessment Differentiations/Modifications

PENCIL-PEN Modification which can be instituted routinely:
1. Allow the students to read and respond to the entire test in pencil.
2. Take the pencil and give them a pen, they then use their books and notes to answer test.
3. They are also allowed to correct answers by crossing through penciled answers.