Understanding Assessment
Differentiation: It Starts with Pre-Assessment - Use an array of pre-assessment options to check for student mastery prior to instruction.
Assessment and Student Success in a Differentiated Classroom - Types of assessments, attributes of quality curriculum, using formative assessments for planning, and strategies for scaffolding and extending.
Classroom Assessments
Formative - A definition of formative assessment from Glossary of Education Reform.
Summative - A definition of summative assessment from Glossary of Education Reform.
Differentiation: It Starts with Pre-Assessment - An ASCD article describing pre-assessment in action in a middle school classroom.
Standardized Assessment
School
CogAT - Verbal, quantitative and nonverbal cognitive abilities test.
Naglieri Nonverbal Abilities Test (NNAT) - Nonverbal dependent abilities test.
Assessments of Gifted Behaviors
- Renzulli Scales for Rating the Behavioral Characteristics of Superior Students
- Gifted Rating Scales
- Rogers TILS
Iowa State Assessment of Statewide Progress (ISASP)
College
ACT - Provides educator training resources and student practice tests in the following subjects:
PSAT - Provides guides, reports and flyers.
SAT - Access to and understanding of scores, resource library support and training modules.
Advanced Placement (AP) Exams - Three (3) or higher for some college admission/transfer credit.
- material, curriculum, professional development
International Baccalaureate (IB) Exams - Four (4) or higher for some college transfer.
- Internal Assessments and inventories for teachers for instructional support.
ACCUPLACER - Concurrent placement test, used for Career Center and some liberal arts options for high schoolers.
Other
We Need to Work Together to Make the Common Core Work for Gifted Students - An NAGC blog post by Jonathan Plucker focused on making Common Core State Standards and assessment work for gifted students.