Assessment Ideas
Formative Assessment
- Autobiographical sketch (my own family’s immigration story)
- Biographies or profiles of historical figures
- Checklists
- Concept maps
- Defining features matrix
- Dialogues (fictional, invented)
- Exit tickets/exit slips (e.g. 3-2-1 ticket: 3 things you learned today, 2 things you want to know more about, 1 question you still have)
- Feedback forms
- Gallery walks (featuring photographs)
- Graphic organizers
- Jamboard (digital whiteboard, graphic organizers, polls, team collaboration)
- Journal/Learning Log
- Lectures (punctuated, in-depth hole-posting)
- Notes (Cornell, guided, directed paraphrasing, RSQC2 (recall, summarize, question, connect, comment)
- Opinion polls (Google Forms, Zoom, Poll Everywhere (text message polling), taking the “temperature of the room”)
- Preliminary Plans/Outlines
- Problem-and-solution (identification of problem, designing a solution)
- Questions (what would you ask the historical figure?, student-generated test questions)
- Rough Drafts
- Practice Presentations
- Quick-writes (Zoom chat, one-minute papers, short-response to 2-3 questions)
- Quiz (Kahoot, Quizlet, Quizzis)
- Short-response items (Beyond the Bubble, Reading Like a Historian/Stanford History Education Group)
- Tests
- Think-pair-share
Formative Assessment
- Written essay with rubric
- Short-response items
- Oral presentation with rubric
- Oral histories (of fellow students, family or community members, Flipgrid)
- Slide show presentation (e.g. PowerPoint, Google Slides, Nearpod, Pear Deck)
- Performance-based assessment
- Long-term project
- Peer evaluation
- Self-evaluation