Planning Assessments

Formative Assessments

Formative assessments or assignments are great ways to give and receive feedback from the students. They can also be used as a way to guide the student’s learning and to achieve the lesson/standards goal. Formative assessments are not a part of the student’s grade.

Standard:

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.5.OA.A.1

Use parentheses, brackets, or braces in numerical expressions, and evaluate expressions with these symbols.

Grade level:

Grade 5

Formative Assessment 1:

• Hand in, Pass out
• The teacher can give students a list of problems to fill out in class.
• Once they are done filling out the problems the students will hand in their papers WITHOUT their names on them.
• After the papers are handed in, the teacher will mix them up and pass them back out to the students randomly.
• The teacher and the students will then correct them all together.

• This assessment is great because the teacher can see what problems the students are struggling with and what areas they need more help in.
• This also takes pressure off of the students, if they get the answer wrong, nobody will know it was them who got the answer wrong.
• It also gives students a chance to grade their peers and a sense of ownership in their class.

Formative Assessment 2:

• Back to Back
• The students can be split up into teams.
• One student from each team can go up to the front of the classroom and sit on a chair in front of the monitor.
• The teacher can write out a problem or have a ppt pre-made with problems.
• The students will race to complete the problems for their team.
• This can also be done individually without the team aspect, but I like team/group competition.

• This is a fun interactive way for the teacher to see how each student does on a problem. It can also narrow down which students seem to be struggling but at the same time encourage them to do their best for their team. Back to Back, and other whiteboard type of activities give the teacher a chance to assess how individual students are doing.

Formative Assessment 3:

• 3-2-1
• This assessment will be used at the end of a class period or unit.
• 3 = students will write down three things that they learned
• 2 = students will write down two things they found interesting
• 1 = students will write down one question they still have.

• This is a wonderful closing assessment. This activity helps the teacher know truly what the students have learned and took away from the lesson/unit. It also allows the teacher to know what the students are still having trouble with. The “one question” can be reviewed the next class period and gives the students one more chance to learn what they are struggling with before a unit exam.