2. Assessment Design Essential Question Key Understandings
Should all assessments be designed in the same manner?
Decide learning targets to be assessed.
Determine appropriate assessment methods.
Distinguish if the assessment methods are the best fit for the learning targets being assessed.

3. H.O.2

4. H.O.3
H.O.3

5. Quality Tasks & Questions Sampling
Quality Assessment Design
Assessment Method
Quality Tasks & Questions
Sampling
Bias & Distortions
Self-assess
These are the five component to a quality assessment design

6. Quality Tasks & Questions
Sampling
Bias & Distortions
Are questions, exercises and tools written well?
Is there enough evidence to truly measure student achievement?
Is there potential for measures of student achievement to be distorted?
Assessment Method
Self-assess
Does the method of assessment match / reflect the learning target(s)?
Can students use results to reflect and set goals?

7. Assessment Method What types of learning targets are being assessed?
What are the assessment methods used?
Are the assessment methods the best fit for the learning targets being assessed?

8. Building and Using Common Assessments: A Professional Development Series
Matching the Assessment Methods to the Learning Targets
michiganassessmentconsortium.org

9. Knowledge Learning Targets
Description
Key Words
Factual information, procedural knowledge and conceptual understanding students are wanted to know.
Explain
Understand
Describe
Identify
Tell
Name
List
Define
Label
Match
Choose
Recall
Recognize
Select

10. Reasoning Learning Targets
Description
Key Words
Thought processes students are to learn to do well; students use what they know; students reason, think critically, solve problems, etc.
Analyze: components, parts, ingredients, logical sequence, steps, main idea, supporting details, determine, dissect , examine, order
Compare/contrast: discriminate between; alike and different, distinguish between, similarities and differences, juxtapose
Synthesize: combine into, blend, formulate, organize, adapt, modify
Classify: categorize, sort, group, give examples
Infer/deduce: interpret, implications, draw conclusions, predict
Evaluate: justify, support opinion, think critically, appraise, critique,
debate, defend, dispute, evaluate, judge, prove

11. Skills Learning Targets
Description
Key Words
Students use knowledge and reasoning to act skillfully; a demonstration of physical skill-based performance at the heart of the learning.
Observe
Focus attention
Listen
Perform Do
Question
Conduct work
Read
Speak
Assemble
Operate
Use
Demonstrate
Measure
Investigate
Model
Collect
Dramatize

12. Product Learning Targets
Description
Key Words
Students use knowledge, reasoning, and skills to create a concrete produce a product; artifacts; specifications for qualities of the product itself are the focus of teaching and assessing.
Design
Produce
Create
Develop
Make
Write
Draw
Represent
Display
Model
Construct

14. Assessment Methods
Building and Using Common Assessments: A Professional Development Series
Matching the Assessment Methods to the Learning Targets
michiganassessmentconsortium.org

15. Type of learning target
Confidence that what you are assessing is what you wanted your students to know and be able to do as a result of the learning process.
Method of assessment =
Type of learning target
Building and Using Common Assessments: A Professional Development Series
Matching the Assessment Methods to the Learning Targets
michiganassessmentconsortium.org

16. How well does each method of assessment match each type of learning target?
Good
Partial
Not

17. H.O.4

18. Method of Assessment = Type of Learning Target

19. “If you don’t know where you are headed, you’ll probably end up someplace else.”
-Douglas J. Eder, Ph.D

20. The one best thing you learned or experienced this session that will help you in your next assessment cycle.
Keep
The one thing that you feel you need to develop from today’s session in order to do better in your next assessment cycle.
Grow
The one thing you need to do differently.
Change