Assessment
Assessment is the systematic process of collecting, reviewing, and using information about a student's knowledge, skills, beliefs, and attitudes. The purpose of this process is to improve student learning and the educational programs designed to support it.
25 Formative Assessments
"Formative assessments are ongoing processes that occursduring the learning cycle. The primary purpose is to provide feedback to both teachers and students. Teachers use this information to adjust their instructional strategies, while students use it to identify their strengths and weaknesses and to guide their own learning. Formative assessments are typically low-stakes and do not contribute significantly to a final grade. Examples include quizzes, exit tickets, and class discussions. This resource contains 25 formative assessments that can be used for any academic subject area.
Writing Checklists or Rubrics for Self-Assessment and Revision
Giving students checklists or rubrics to self-assess their own writing helps them to engage in the revision process and identify revision priorities. These checklists or rubrics can be used as a tool to support students to better understand peer feedback or they can be used as a tool for students to revise their writing on their own without a teacher or peer's feedback.
Discover moreOverarching Essential Questions
Framework of overarching essential questions for Chumash and Navi: values, mitzvot, narrative ethics; growth after failure and accountability; differences between personal and communal sin; models and critiques of leadership; divine covenant, justice, mercy, and redemption; tensions between command and emotion; and prophecy’s role in shaping Israel’s moral conscience and society.
Kadima Learning Activities and Assessments
These Kadima suggested assessments are designed to measure:
Student understanding and acquisition of content
Student acquisition of textual reading skills
Student engagement with material on a personal, communal and/or global level
Creative Formative and Summative Assessments
Creative Formative and Summative Assessments challenges teachers to reflect on the purpose of assessments and their impact on student learning. The deck introduces frameworks like Understanding by Design and offers practical formative and summative strategies teachers can apply right away. It emphasizes designing assessments that move beyond recall to foster skill transfer and meaning-making.
The Power of Assessments
The Power of Assessments helps teachers rethink why, what, and how they assess. The deck introduces a range of formative assessments and shows how to embed them into the launch, core, and close of daily lessons. It guides educators to design lessons that measure content, skills, and meaning-making in ways that fit diverse learners