Formative+Assessments

This page provides explanations of what formative assessments are and how to use them. This page also gives examples of our team's previous formative assessments. Our new formative assessments will be posted on our team's private wikispace for assessments in order to keep test keys and student information confidential.

ECVPLC Formative Assessments this provides an explanation of formative assessments.

From the Friday 8/27/10 and Monday 8/30/10 Presentations on Formative Assessments:
 * Formative Assessments PowerPoint Presentation: [|Formative Assessments.ppt].
 * Formative Assessments PowerPoint Presentation, PDF: [|Formative Assessments.pdf].
 * Link to the research paper about using these formative assessments at ECVHS.

For the formative assessment process, we will use the Student Progress Chart to get students involved with establishing learning goals and tracking their own progress. Refer to page 26 in Marzano's book for assistance. Each week, for five weeks, we will give our students an opportunity to write, responding to a prompt modeled after those on the CAHSEE. We will use our rubric to check the written responses so that we can give concentrated feedback to our students.

The links directly below will take you to the resources we used for formative assessments before the 2010-2011 year. Beginning in 2010-2011, our team began keeping all assessment information on a private wikispace that only our PLC team members can access.

Our common formative assessments for the Reading category:
 * The Edge cluster tests
 * How to Find Scoring Guides in the Edge

Our formative assessments for the Writing category:
 * Expository Formative Assessment Resources
 * Narrative Formative Assessment Resources
 * Research Formative Assessment Resources