Assessment Overview

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Assessment should provide:

Valid evidence - making sure that we assess and how we assess follows logically from the Stage 1 goals.

Assessment should provide:

Fair, valid, reliable and sufficient measures of the desired results

Assessment should provide:

Opportunity for students to exhibit their understanding through "authentic" performance tasks

Assessment should provide:

Appropriate criterion-based scoring tools used to evaluate student products and performances

Assessment should provide:

A variety of appropriate assessment formats

Assessment should provide:

Additional evidence of learning

Assessment should be:

Familiar

Know and Do

Big Idea and Core Tasks

Based on content type.Traditional quizzes and tests: Paper-and-pencil, selected-responses, constructed response

Performance tasks and projects: complex, open-ended, authentic