The Very Best Assessment Tools & Resources For Teachers

27 Simple Ways To Check For Understanding

Whether you’re using data to personalize learning or refine curriculum, the ability to easily check for understanding is critical to your teaching.

From formative and summative assessment to criterion-referenced and benchmark assessment, each type of assessment has a unique function.

It’s an extraordinary amount of work to design precise and personalized assessments that illuminate pathways forward for individual students.

A ‘non-threatening assessment’ is one that provides data for teachers without the ‘pressure’ of tests and other traditional assessments.

How can you use data to improve your teaching? If you don’t already have a plan for the data before giving the assessment, you’re already behind.

In a perfect world, all assessment would be formative–an ongoing loop of learning, feedback, revision, and learning again.

Students need access to lower-level information to then use in higher-level thinking that requires them to synthesize disparate perspectives.

A question is only a strategy (for inquiry) and must therefore have a purpose if we want to evaluate its quality.