Assessment Tools

1. Teacher Made Quizzes/Tests - written or oral assessments that are not commercially produced or standardized. In other words, a test a teacher designs specifically for his or her students.

2. Star Reading and Math - is a quarterly progress monitoring software assessment in wide use by primary and secondary schools for monitoring the practice in reading and math. The software provides additional information to teachers regarding reading and math rates, amount of reading, and other variables related to math and reading.

3. Reading First Assessment (RFA) - RFA is an ongoing assessment tool used to monitor the students reading level and progress with alphabet sounds, recognizing alphabets, blending, phonemic awareness etc.

3. Portfolios - a collection of student work gathered for a particular purpose that exhibits to the student and others the student's efforts, progress or achievement in one or more areas.

4. Performance Tasks - encompass many skills and usually have a direct application to real tasks people are asked to do in everyday life.

5. Learning Logs -consist of short, objective entries that contain mathematical problem-solving entries, observations of science experiments, questions about the lecture or readings, lists of outside readings, homework assignments, or anything that lends itself to keeping records. Often the responses in these logs are usually brief, factual, and impersonal.

6. Journals - usually written in narrative form, are subjective, and deal more with feelings, opinions, or personal experiences. Journal entries are usually more descriptive, longer, open-ended, and free flowing than logs. They are often used to respond to pieces of literature, describe events, comment on reactions to events, reflection on personal experiences and feelings, and connect what is being studied in one class with another class or with life outside the classroom.

7. Individual/ Group Presentation - students are assessed based on given criteria to with the outcome of the final product.

8. Observation- assessment may also be done with observation during the time when students are working, presenting, or orally participating during a discussion.