10 Formative Assessments for STEM

Assessments seem to have turned into a four letter word.  Assessment is important, but at what cost to our students’ learning and development?  What if we can get useful assessment data without the pain?  Enter Formative Assessments.

Formative Assessments can be easily incorporated into STEM lessons and/or units to assess student learning without causing students anxiety.  They inform our planning and positively impact student learning.

Formative assessments for student learning inform future lessons and help kids focus on key ideas.  Sometimes though, the intent doesn’t actually carry through and we end up over assessing.

These versatile formative assessments can be easily used throughout a STEM lesson and/or unit to assess student learning.  By soliciting ongoing feedback, we can better guide our teaching and positively impact student learning.  Here’s what’s included:

Concept maps, and Positive/Negative/Interesting are a great start, but I’ve selected formative assessments that are different (and less boring) and that encourage deeper thinking.

Some that fall into that category are KLEW (cousin of KWL) which compels students to provide evidence for what they know and have learned. Using this variation allows students to take a little more of a risk when sharing the concepts that they are learning.   Requiring students to support their claims makes students consider connections between the concepts they are learning.

Others included in this bundle are:

Positive/Negative/Interesting
Newspaper Headline
KLEW
Agree/Disagree
Before & After
3-2-1
ABC Summary
Concept Map
RERUN
Claim, Evidence, Reasoning

The Formative Assessment bundle includes 10 assessment templates +7 bonus for a total of 17!  These formative assessments can be used for any subject to make your data collection and daily teaching life easier!

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