{"id":2770,"date":"2011-07-25T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/?p=2770"},"modified":"2019-03-27T14:28:54","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T19:28:54","slug":"types-of-formative-assessments-quizzes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/types-of-formative-assessments-quizzes\/","title":{"rendered":"Types of Formative Assessments: Quizzes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/professionallearningboard.com\/blog\/\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"check_out_the_new_blog\" title=\"Check Out the New Blog\" alt=\"Check Out the New Blog\"  src=\"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/images\/check_out_the_new_blog.jpg\"><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/quiz.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2771 alignright\" style=\"margin: 10px; border: 4px solid black;\" title=\"quiz\" src=\"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/quiz.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a>As educators, we have access to various resources when it comes to designing lessons, assessments, and remediation. The same is true with formative assessments. There are no &#8220;cookie cutter&#8221; approaches to formative assessments as several types exist.<\/p>\n<p>Formative assessment is NOT LIMITED to any one of the following: multiple-choice, short answer, or essay assessments. Instead Formative Assessment includes the usage of a variety of assessments and activities designed to determine student mastery in an effort to guide instruction.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Consider quizzes as\u00a0formative assessments in classrooms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Quizzes seems pretty straight forward. Afterall, a quiz is a quiz is a quiz. Easy, right? Well, not as a formative assessment! Common issues in using quizzes as a formative assessment are that the quiz is rarely aligned to the curriculum and secondly, quiz grades are often recorded. If you are using a quiz as a formative assessment (not graded), the quiz MUST be aligned to the curriculum. This requires understanding the curriculum and what the curriculum expects the student to know.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Instead of recording the quiz grade<\/strong>, provide comments to students regarding their incorrect answers and explain why the answer was not correct. What a statement this sends to the student: a statement that the teacher cares more about their learning than their grade.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Black, P. and Wiliam, D. (1998b). <em>Inside the black box: Raising standards through classroom assessment<\/em>. Phi Delta Kappan, 80 (2): 139-148.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>From Professional Learning Board\u2019s online continuing education course for teachers: <a title=\"View course description for online teacher continuing education\" href=\"..\/..\/course\/view.php?id=71\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Formative Assessment<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>  As educators, we have access to various resources when it comes to designing lessons, assessments, and remediation. The same is true with formative assessments. There are no &#8220;cookie cutter&#8221; approaches to formative assessments as several types exist.<br \/>\nFormative assessment is NOT LIMITED to any one of the following: multiple-choice, short answer, or essay assessments. 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