Formative Assessment: Checkpoints Checkpoints are administered every three weeks, and are designed to be administered in the middle of a unit as a benchmark for where students are halfway through the material. These are given on the computer and give students immediate feedback, results, projections of how they will do on the Unit test, and also gives them a small group based on what standards need more work. Checkpoints are also great for me so that I can see exactly what standards need more work before the unit test a few weeks after. These are not high-stakes, but are much more formal than other methods of assessment on a daily/weekly basis. This "donut" to the side tells students where they rank within the classroom (Blue; advanced, Green; mastery, yellow; basic, orange; approaching basic, red; unsat).
Summative Assessment: Unit Tests Unit Tests are administered at the end of each unit in math, and are designed as the sole high-stakes assessment per unit. They take each standard taught and assess in multiple ways. For students, they receive immediate scores and responses to missed questions, and are able to see what level they scored at.
These scores, shown above, indicate if a student is Advanced, Mastery, Basic, Below Basic, or Unsatisfactory, which corresponds to state test scores at the end of the year. When vocabulary is the same across assessments, it gives students an easy way to compare how they do on formative assessments to how they do on summative assessments.
As an educator, I can break down the results based on the standard as well as what type of question it was. This gives me many pathways to work from. I am able to determine if students didn't get a specific standard or if they had trouble answering a certain type of problem. *Please note- we are unable to modify unit assessments other than increasing font size and using the read-aloud feature on the program
* Percentages denote how many scholars showed mastery on a given standard band.
* Colored portions show how students performed on each type of assessment question. Red is unsatisfactory, orange is approaching basic, yellow is basic, green is mastery, blue is advanced. This tells me I need to teach better supports for constructed response.