A BALANCED ASSESSMENT SYSTEM

Classroom Assessments
Examples of
practice

Worksheets,
clickers,
whiteboards
, exit
tickets,
conferences,
monitoring,
questioning

Unit tests,
final
projects,
portfolios,
final exams

Formative or
Summative?
Purpose?

Formative

Summative

Whose
responsibility
?

Classroom
teacher

To give
To give a
immediate
grade
feedback
and
determine
where
students
weaknesses
and
strengths are

Classroom
teacher

Formative
Assessments
Tasks
assessed with
rubrics, short
quizzes,
worksheets,
clickers,
whiteboards,
exit tickets,
conferences,
monitoring,
questioning
Formative
To determine
if students
have learned
the material
and how to
move forward
with
instruction,
what
differentiatio
n strategies
are needed,
what needs to
be retaught
Collaborative
teams

Benchmark
Assessment
s
Quarterly
tests, writing
samples,
mClass
reading
assessment

Summative
Assessment
s
EOGs, ACT,
SAT, AP
exams, other
state
mandated
tests

Summative

Summative

To assess
curriculum,
instructional
strategies,
and pacing

To
determine if
students
should be
moved to
next grade
or admitted
to colleges
or
universities

District
teams of
teachers
who
represent the
grade levels

State group
of test
developers

(Bailey
&
Jakicic,
2012)