Unit Plan Assessment Types
Formal AssessmentFormal assessments should aim to, "assess students' higher order thinking required to utilize scientific knowledge and generate new understandings, not just the abilities to recall facts and recognize bits of information," (Chiappetta, 53).
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Informal Assessment"Testing and assessment are not synonymous," which means assessing students throughout the instruction and at the end of instruction (summative assessment) is useful to gauge student learning and growth (Chiappetta, 53).
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Alternative Assessment"Alternative assessments tend to enable teachers to gain richer understanding of what students are thinking and how they construct meaning than is typically possible when only using tests," (Chiappetta, 57).
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