Assessing for Deeper Learning and Transfer

Self Assessment

To what extent do you:

leverage a variety within the four types of formative assessment, ensuring that each works together with the others to ensure you know students' learning needs and that students also know their own needs and next steps?
create Learning Dashboards for your content for the academic year, empowering students to own their own learning progress towards mastery?
develop and use transfer tasks to create the opportunity for students to apply their learning to new contexts through a performance-based approach?

Read the Four Types of Formative Assessment document or read oStudents Taking Charge in Grades K–5: pgs. 164–167 to learn more about the four types of formative assessment.

Unit Assessment Planner — Use this planning tool to holistically map out the types of pre-, formative, and summative assessment to be conducted throughout an instructional unit. Try to vary your formative assessments to incorporate all four types.

Formative Assessment Planning Organizer — Use this graphic organizer to brainstorm how you will incorporate at least three different ideas for each of the four types of formative assessment into an instructional unit.

View this Insights Video on student ownership of their assessments.

Consider how a Student Learning Dashboard can expand the network of facilitation and develop next steps for students.

Summative Assessment Through Transfer

Analyzing Transfer Tasks — Review sample transfer tasks to analyze the various aspects of this form of summative assessment. Samples are linked in the document.

Create a Transfer Task — Follow the steps in this guide to create a transfer task for the unit you designed.

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