1. Alternative Assessment
   1. Work well in learner-centered classrooms because students can evaluate their own learning and learn from their evaluation.
   2. 40 Alt. Assessment ideas
   3. Use activities that reveal what students CAN do, focusing on their strengths not their weaknesses.
   4. Ohio’s Alternate Assessment for Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities (AASCD)
2. Self-Assessment
   1. Allows students to evaluate their own learning
   2. YouTube Video
   3. Tools for Self-Assessment
3. High Stakes Assessment
   1. test outcomes are used to make important, often life-altering decisions
   2. ACT, SAT, OGT, OAA, GED, Praxis
   3. Pros and Cons
4. Peer-Assessment
   1. Assessment of student's work done by another student
   2. Youtube Video-Great Idea!!
   3. How to implement effectively
5. Summative Assessment
   1. given at the conclusion of a specific instructional period, and therefore they are generally evaluative, rather than diagnostic
   2. The tests, assignments, or projects are used to determine whether students have learned what they were expected to learn
   3. YouTube- how to make sense of Summative assessment data
6. Authentic Assessment
   1. A form of assessment in which students are asked to perform real-world tasks that demonstrate meaningful application of essential knowledge and skill
   2. School of the Future
   3. Observation, essay, interviews, journals, portfolios
7. Formative Assessment
   1. What are formative Assessments and why we should use them
      1. Unpacking Formative Assessment
   2. Examples
      1. Questioning/discussion
      2. Observation
      3. Exit Slips
      4. Visual/Practice Representation
      5. Individual White Boards
8. Portfolio Assessment
   1. Form of Authentic Assessment
   2. YouTube Video
   3. Key Elements for Successful Portfolio Assessment
      1. Rubric for Evaluation
      2. Clear Criteria for Evaluation
   4. Evaluation tool used to document student learning through a series of student-developed artifacts
9. Diagnostic
   1. Ohio Department of Education
      1. Provides a tool to check student's progress towards state's standards
      2. Aligned with Ohio's New Learning standards
      3. Two Formats
         1. SCREENER-Measures beginning year skills
         2. FULL-MEASURE-Measures end of year skills