Student Assessment Advice and Forms
Student assessments can be a tricky task. Our collection of ideas and forms will make it easier for you to evaluate and grade your students' work, no matter their grade level. There are as many variations of assessment as there are students. Look below to find ideas on assessment strategies, modifications, and enhancing your existing methods. These assessment forms and techniques will work across the curriculum, so use them for math, science, reading, language arts, social studies, and your other subjects.
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Advice for Teachers
- Assessment vs. Evaluation
Learn the difference between assessment and evaluation in this article of teaching advice. You will also learn how you should use each method in the classroom. New teachers will find this resource particularly valuable when outlining their grading policies.
- Categories of Evaluation
Different methods of evaluation are needed to truly assess how much your students are learning. Learn here the different types of evaluation you can use in the classroom. New teachers will find this resource particularly valuable.
- Types of Assessment Accommodation
A comprehensive listing of types of assessment accommodations.
- Creating Meaningful Performance Assessments
An overview of how to create meaningful performance assessments to measure student abilities and progress.
- Portfolios
This collection of articles and resource will help you build portfolios with your students. Portfolios are a great mode of assessment for your classroom.
- Good Assessment Strategies
The words "assessment" and "testing" are often enough to send goose bumps up the arms of many students and teachers. This printable includes a few assessment strategies that can help your students through the anxious moments and help them score higher in the process.
- Rubrics Library for Teachers
Our extensive library of rubrics will help you assess your students' work in all subjects, from reading & language arts, to science, to social studies.
- Top 10 Test-Taking Tips for Students
These tips will help students to perform at their best levels during testing situations.
- Using Multiple Intelligences in Testing & Assessment
Information on using Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences (MI) in student assessments is found here. New teachers, who are just getting acquainted with MI will find this resource particularly valuable.
- Running Records
A running record is a way to assess a student's reading progress by systematically evaluating a student's oral reading and identifying error patterns. This template will help you track your students' oral reading accuracy.
- Report Card Comments & Phrases - All Grades, Subjects & Topics
Report card comments help parents to understand where their child is growing or struggling as a student. Are there things that their child excels at or struggles with? The valuable information you provide can help the parent address any challenges their child may be struggling with in the classroom.
Printable Forms
- Exit Tickets for Elementary Students
7 exit tickets for informal assessment in the elementary grades
- Self-Assessments Themed Packet
4 different self-assessment forms for students grades 3-8.
- Awards and Certificates
Use printable certificates and awards to recognize great effort, achievement, or progress by your students. Express gratitude, encourage good behavior, and reward a job well done with these resources.
- Bubble Answer Sheet
Sheet of multiple-choice bubble answers ready to be filled in by your students. This is a great assessment tool.
- Daily Point Chart
Use a chart that will help you track any type of behavior management system they use on a daily basis.
- Group Self-Evaluation
Use a chart that will help you track any type of behavior management system they use on a daily basis.
- Portfolio Assessment Chart
Make use of this printable chart to assess your students portfolio projects.
- Student Progress Report
Make use of this printable chart to assess your students progression throughout the year.
- Student Progress Self-Evaluation
Have your students fill in this comment form to evaluate their own progress with class work. This is an excellent tool to encourage children to understand their own progress.
- Teacher's Form for Group Evaluation
Evaluate students' participation and productivity within a group activity. This printable provides an excellent place to inform students of how one person's work in the group can affect all members.
- Team Evaluation Form
Evaluate student progress within a team and by subject area with this customizable form. Tailor the PDF to your teaching needs by typing in the highlighted fields before printing.
- Weekly Point Chart
Four weeks' worth of point totals for tracking behavior management are in this chart.
- Pre-Reading Rubric and Score Sheet
Use this rubric and scoring sheet to grade students after completing the Asking Pre-Reading Questions lesson plan
- Student Self-Assessment 1
This assessment worksheet asks students to describe an assignment and what they learned.
- Student Self-Assessment 2
Have your students assess their progress while working independently with these questions and checklist.
- Running Records Form
Use this blank running record to assess individual students' reading skills and progress. Use with the lesson plan on Running Records. This printable is customizable. Tailor the PDF to your teaching needs by typing in the highlighted fields before printing.
