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Assessment Observation Checklist

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1. Prior Conditions.

Use a scale of 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 "strongly agree" to indicate your agreement with the statements below: Circle one for each statement.

Students are:

2. Type of assessment.

Check one:

3. Which type of stand-alone assessment?

Check one:

_____ standardized test: ______________________

_____ teacher-prepared quiz or test

_____ end of chapter textbook test

_____ performance/exposition

4. How closely is this assessment aligned with instruction? Describe:

5. How is assessment embedded in the instructional activity?

Use a scale of 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 "strongly agree" to indicate your agreement with the statements below:

_____ Teacher set and communicated high expectations.

_____ Teacher clearly explained and/or modeled what was expected.

_____ All students had sufficient time to complete the task.

_____ Teacher assessed comprehension of the steps of the task along the way.

_____ Teacher probed for conceptual understanding.

_____ Teacher gave credit to students for understanding parts of the process, content.

_____ Teacher allowed multiple ways for students to demonstrate their understanding (i.e., in native language, verbally, written, graphically, etc.)

_____ Students evaluated their own work.

_____ Students evaluated each other’s work.

_____ Teacher collected and reviewed student work.

_____ Teacher returned reviewed work to students with comments.

6. Relationship to content or performance standards.

Use a scale of 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 "strongly agree" to indicate your agreement with the statements below:

_____ The assessment or task clearly relates to content or performance standards.

_____ The teacher can articulate the connection between the assessment/task and content or performance standards.

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