TIPS

How can you provide opportunities for students to be assessed equitably?

Tips and Strategies for Literacy Assessment

Tip #1: Use open-ended questions

• This will help get students writing/talking
• Avoid yes/no questions
• Will help reveal more student understanding through rich discussion

Tip #2: Self Reflection opportunities

• For students to reflect on what they learned
• Ways they can apply what they learned

Tip #3: Short Quizzes

• Quizzes created based on content taught to check student comprehension
• Allows teacher to see what students know and need more practice with

Tip #4: Think, Pair, Share

• For students to first individually think about a teacher prompt
• Students then are given time to compare their thoughts with a peer
• After discussing thoughts and ideas with a peer, students share their refined ideas to the whole class
• Allows teacher to check in on student thinking, understanding, and/or  interests on a particular concept or topic
  
  

Tip #5: Response Cards

• Students respond to questions and/or problems instructed by teacher
• Questions can be answering using materials such as cue cards, white boards, QR codes
• Allows teacher to easily collect student data on student comprehension in a timely manner

Tip #6: Providing Effective Feedback

• Providing effective feedback to your students includes being timely, specific and descriptive
• Involves checking into student thinking
• Giving students a clear understanding of what is being done well and what needs to be worked on

Tip #7: 3-2-1

• Students demonstrate what they have learned in a lesson by answering the following 3 questions:
         - 3 things they learned from your lesson
         - 2 things they want to know more about
         - 1 question they have
• Helps prompt student reflection and process learning

Tip #8: Exit Ticket

• Students write a short reflection (can be based on a teacher prompt) based on what they have learned from the lesson
• Helps to generate ideas/understanding of topics

Tip #9: Misconception Check

• Show students common or predictable misconceptions/mistakes about a particular concept (vocabulary, grammar, etc.)
• Have students explain if they agree or disagree and explain why

Tip #10: Peer Instruction

• Have one student teach another student what he/she learned
• If that student explained it correctly, it means that he/she understood the lesson and content taught.

Tip #11: Do vs. Don’t

• Separate what you do understand vs. what you do not understand
• Create a chart for students to display their understanding (include questions they may have)
• This could be handed in in the form of an exit ticket

Tip #12: Entrance Tickets

• Teacher asks a question at the start of a lesson
• Students may write these on a piece of paper
• Can be used as a diagnostic assessment
• Prepared to adjust lesson if needed

Tip #13: Student Chosen Activities

• Students choose an offered activity based on their learning abilities and readiness
• Products can be written, oral, or visual
• Students can also propose an option to be approved by teacher
• Main assessment component would be on content material as opposed to form of product to ensure equitable assessing of students