Assessment+Guide

Welcome to the RTI: Response to Instruction how to for formative and summative assessments. This is your bag of tricks. Some schools employ some or none of theses assessments but this is an all encompassing page for available assessments and how to use them to diagnose and then "respond" by either intervention strategies or changes in instruction.

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 * Summative: SBA**

SBA-Standards Based Assessment that gives a one time snap shot of student comprehension at the end of the year. It is often used in isolation to make decisions on student placement within an educational program or intervention curriculum. Best practices would say that data driven decisions should rely on more than just a single summative score.

Link practice SBA's for math. EED SBA every grade level with answer keys.


 * Formative: MCAP, Success Maker, Tenmarks.com, Exit Tasks, Pre-Assessments, and much much more.**

MCAP-Mathematics Concepts and Applications is a universal screener that tests the following strands: number sense, operations, patterns, data and probability, measurement, data and statistics, geometry, and algebra. It is given 3 times a year; fall, winter, and spring. 6th grade gets 8 minutes to complete test. 7th and 8th grade get 10 minutes to complete test. links to PDF copies to grading and sample tests to follow.

Success maker-is a paid for computer program that can assess student grade level in math. It does require training, but can provide the ability to tailor a remedial curriculum to move students up to 3 grade levels. Speak to administration or department chairs about this program.

Tenmarks.com -is a Free computer program that can be used to create a customized math curriculum. It has data and progress tracking abilities with daily or weekly assignments for students. Training can be done completely online and curriculum individually tailored by class or student level.

Pencil and paper. As a teacher, your formative assessments also provide data about student achievement. It can be in the form of small exit tasks, pre-assessments, chapter tests, grade-wide benchmark probes, and unit tests, etc... A working knowledge of data analysis and spreadsheets will be very helpful when documenting student achievement and progress monitoring. Google Docs can be used as a collaborative device to share progress monitoring