Vocabulary Chart

Vocabulary Word Definition Date

Introduced
Understanding
what it means. (Fill
in with color.)
Comprehensive
Assessment

Plan for
monitoring the
benchmark of
students
The goal is to
increase student
learning by
producing actual
data
Ensure all
students are
making progress


Summative
Assessment
(END)
Form of
assessment that
is given at the
end of the unit. It
is to judge the
extent of student
learning
Retrospective
assessment of
what students
have learned,
know, or are able
to do.
Formal- Exam,
Project,
Keystones,
PSSATs


Formative
Assessment
(During or on
going)

Process or set of
strategies that
students and
teachers use to
gather
information
during the
learning process.
Generally not
used to measure
long term
outcomes; rather,
it is used to
measure whether
students learned
what was just
taught before
moving on to
instructional next
steps
Formal- Graded
Informal-
Observations


Diagnostic
Assessment

Provide
instructors with
information about
student's prior
knowledge and
misconceptions
before beginning
a learning
activity.
They also provide
a baseline for
understanding
how much
learning has
taken place after
the learning
activity is
completed.
Finds a problem,

does not tell us
what to do with
the problem.

Benchmark
Assessment
Short tests
administered
throughout the
school year that
give teachers
immediate
feedback on how
students are
meeting academic
standards.
Regular use of
benchmark
assessments is
seen by many as
a tool to measure
student growth
and design
curriculum to
meet individual
learning need
Short Test, GOAL,
measurement
Not about points.
They are very
specific, use them
in the RTII
(Response to
Intervention and
Instruction)
More about the
teachers, then it
is about the child.

Assessment

Information
regarding
progress.
Evaluation
Judgment


Formal
Learning
Formal learning is
planned learning
that derives from
activities within a
structured
learning setting.
Formal learning is
enrolling on a
program of study,
attending
lectures, and
preparing
coursework,
engaging in
seminar/tutorial
discussions.

Informal
Learning
Learning that
derives from
activities external
to a structured
learning context.
Unstructured
learning within a
structured
learning
environment.