Instructional Playbook

Types of Assessment

A balanced assessment system promotes the careful selection of the right assessment at the right time to provide actionable next steps.

“Is the intervention working? Is the student on track to meet their goal?”

“Did students learn what

“Are students mastering standards? If not, what can we do about it?”

“Did students master the content (knowledge/ skills?”

Question

“Which students are at risk?”

“What is the specific area of need?”

was just taught?

What should I teach next?”

Universal Screening

Skill Diagnosis

Progress Monitoring

Classroom Formative

Summative

Benchmark

Identify students who need extra support to meet learning goals considering academic and non academic factors

Universal Screening Measure progress toward a learning target by tracking the rate of improvement in the specific skill targeted by an intervention

Confirm that specific learning has taken place and provide

Evaluate, certify, and/or grade learning at the end of a specific period of instruction

Measure students’ standards proficiency and identify needed instruction

Goal

Pinpoint specific skill area of need

data to inform

instruction that follows

End of Year, End of Term,

When

2-5x per year

2-3x per year

1-4x per month

2-4x per quarter

Ongoing

End of Course

Pretests Observations Discussions Quick write Whiteboard response Exit tickets

WIDA MAP test Acadience SRSS-IE

PASI PSI CPA

Quizzes Targeted

DWSBA CFA’s Unit test Essay Project Socratic Seminar

ASPIRE RISE ACT AP IB AAPPL CTE Skill based

assignments Observations Rubric Criteria Exit tickets

Examples

Who

Students receiving intervention All students

All students or small groups

Students flagged by Screener

All students

All students