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Device-Free Formative Assessments

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Questions to think about . . .

With differentiation, teachers respond to student learning needs based on continuous formative assessment practices. Instruction meets learners where they are, providing access to the curriculum, and allowing students to progress at their own pace.

Do you:

  • use your formative assessments to inform student groupings?
  • vary your formative assessments based on content, group or individual setting?
  • vary formative assessment tasks (highlighting words, manipulatives, numbers, type of engagement)?
  • have a routine or structure you use to continuously assess your students throughout the class/day?
  • adjust your instruction in the moment based on formative assessment?
  • have conferences with students based on formative assessment data?
  • use formative assessments to track student achievement on assigned tasks ?
  • directly link formative assessments to learning goals and content?
  • use both formal and informal assessments to track student understanding?
  • have students record progress or track their own data?
  • regularly checks for understanding before, during, and after the lesson?
  • use checks as data points to make real-time instructional decisions?

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  • What is essential for students to know or be able to do after this lesson?�
  • How can I assess that?�
  • How will this information change that lesson or tomorrow’s lesson?

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What Device-Free Ways Do You Check For Understanding In Your Classroom?

Device Free Formative Assessments

�3C: Teacher checks for understanding�

  • Formal and informal assessments
  • Teacher uses formative assessment to track student achievement on assigned tasks (e.g. exit tickets)
  • Formative assessment is directly linked to learning goals and content
  • Teacher uses informal assessments to track student understanding
  • Teacher checks for understanding before, during, and after the lesson
  • Teacher uses checks as data points to make real-time instructional decisions�

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Grouping Methods for Differentiated Instruction

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Device Free Formative Assessments

Priority Practice 3C: Teacher checks for understanding

  • Summative assessments
  • Fist-to-five
  • Thumbs up
  • Exit tickets
  • Written work
  • Journal
  • Two truths and a lie
  • Highlighting with different colors / highlighting questions they have or confusion
  • Start, Stop, Continue doing
  • Start of class Prediction, Review or Opinion questions
  • Polls
  • Pre-tests
  • Drawing. Mind maps
  • Think, pair, share
  • Write a learning goal for the day
  • Four Corners
  • Where do you stand
  • Self assess sticky notes
  • Interview the learner
  • Emoji Answers
  • Chart/Diagram
  • Write a test question and an the answer on content covered
  • Writing prompts
  • Knowledge dump for 1 minute
  • Write directions on how to do something
  • Journal with pictures, words, diagrams
  • Stacking cups at desk to signal understanding
  • Compare and contrast
  • Opinion chart

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Verbal Linguistic

Write 3 things you learned today

Write a summary of the lesson or reading

Logical Mathematical

Create an outline of today’s learning

Design a timeline sequencing the events of today’s learning

Visual Spatial

Illustrate or create a diagram about today’s learning

Create a mind map of today’s learning

Musical Rhythmic

Create a rap containing the most important facts from today’s learning

Write a poem explaining the key points from today’s learning

Bodily Kinesthetic

Create a cheer or rap with movements that go along with the words to what you learned from today’s lesson

Role-play the key event in today’s lesson

Interpersonal

With a partner, conduct an interview of today’s learning

With a partner, hold a debate about today’s learning

Intrapersonal

Create a goal for you to personally implement based on today’s learning

Write a Dear Diary entry about how you feel about today’s lesson

Naturalist

Explain how today’s learning might have an impact on the earth, animals, and/or human beings

Make an analogy between today’s learning and the world.

To wrap up learning and seal it in the student’s own comfort zone or multiple intelligence, have the student choose one of the following ways to process or encode the day’s learning base on ONE of their top strengths.

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Take a look at formative assessment ideas

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Share 1 device free formative assessment you will try with students within the week.