Question

The following teachers are using various types of assessments. Which one is most likely used for formative purposes?

		Mr. McLaren's groups are creating skits to show what they learned in their advertising unit.
		Ms. Allen is giving a pretest before she begins instruction on a new unit in geometry.
		Mrs. Godcheaux uses students' portfolios to determine their final grades in her design class.
		Mr. DeVall gives students a rubric that will be used in grading their oral presentations in his speech class.

Answer 1

Ms. Allen is giving a pretest before she begins instructions on a new unit in geometry because It follows one of the type of formative assessment i.e KWL charts:

K- for know

W for want

L for learner

These charts are long term formative assessment which helps the teachers to check periodic understanding of students. In this type the students write what they know about the task, what they want to learn and eventually what they have learned in the end . Formative assessments are the methods which allow the teachers to monitor and check the understanding of students on a continual basis.