Assessment Presentation

1. Assessments
Data Driven Instruction
Jessica Douglas and Sharon Frausto

3. Purpose of Assessment
• To determine what a student knows based on instruction.
• To identify what deficits a student may have.
• To decide how to group students based on data.
• To evaluate what you believe contributed to the success of
your students, and why some students struggled.

4. Assessments
There are four broad Types of Assessments:
• Screening
• Diagnostic
• Progress Monitoring
• Summative

5. Screening
• Data: Criterion data, used to determine if
student can read fluently on grade level.
• Targeted to determine if further assessment is
needed to locate student weaknesses.
• Usually brief in nature and given to groups or
individuals.
• Examples: Word Identification Fluency-WIF, Oral
Reading Fluency – ORF.

6. Diagnostic
• Data: Standardized Norm referenced or
Informal.
• Assessment is designed to provide specific
data and target specific areas where students
may need additional support.
• Examples: Informal Reading Inventory, Diagnostic
Assessment of Reading, Qualitative Reading
Inventory.

7. Progress Monitoring
• Data: Informal data is used to determine
student performance academic growth.
• Administered periodically to determine if
the intervention program is working or if
student is making appropriate growth.
• Examples: Running records, Anecdotal notes,
Timed reading tests, Performance Based
Rubrics.

8. Outcome Measures
(Summative Assessments)
• Data: Norm-referenced, standardized rather than informal,
to assess how student compares to their peers.
• Used at the end of program: year, course, or unit.
• Used to determine the level of achievement or proficiency
of student progress.
• Used to determine if the district, school, or subgroup is
making Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP).
• Examples: Florida Standard Assessment (FSA) , Florida
Standard Alternate Assessment (FSAA).