Formative Assessment Paper

When I began to think about what assessments I would choose for this assignment I first thought about selecting a variety of assessment forms. I wanted to choose both formative and summative assessments but found this more difficult than I had originally thought. Selecting summative assessments seemed easy but choosing a formative assessment was much more difficult. As I began to think more about a formative assessment that I would include, I found several models that would work. My next task was selecting assessments that demonstrated a wide variety of assessment skills as well as a variety of lessons taught. I decided to select one assessment from science, one from math, and one from ELA. Finally, I decided to select three students to use as examples of these assessments. I chose one student who receives extra instruction from a resource teacher, one whom is part of the Eagles program (gifted students) and one whom usually performs in the middle range throughout each subject. …show more content…
This assessment is a formative assessment because the information that we collected will not be used for a grade but to help the instructor determine where the students’ weaknesses are within spelling. I personally conducted several of these inventories and found that the students’ skill levels varied tremendously. This assessment was scored so the teacher could determine the spelling stage the student was in but was not collected as a grade. The work that was collected shows that each student is clearly on separate levels. With these spelling inventories, students can now be divided into small groups where they can work with words that are on their level. This not only helps the lower level students with words that they can master in a reasonable time but it also allows the upper level students to use words that will challenge them but would be almost impossible for the lower level groups to