Terminology+List


 * The terms we want defined to clarify our understanding of grades and the assessment/grading process:**
 * ** FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT - assessments used while instruction is occuring, intimately tied to the formal and informal processes in classrooms. Learning is still underway. These assessments help teachers figure out student needs, plan next steps, give feedback, and help students feel apart of the process. This is not about accountability but about getting better.**
 * FORMATIVE AND SUMMATIVE -
 * ** SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT - assessments employed at the end of an instructional episode**
 * ** OBTRUSIVE ASSESSMENT - interrupts the normal flow of activity in a classroom. Instruction doesn't occur during this time. This could be a quiz, test, demonstration, performance or oral explanation.**
 * ** UNOBTRUSIVE ASSESSMENT - do not interrupt the flow of instruction. Students may not even know they are being assessed. Most easily applied to content that is procedural or skill/strategy/process content.**
 * ** SCALE - a continuum that articulates distinct levels of knowledge adn skills relative to a specific topic**