{"id":1113,"date":"2019-05-17T18:45:55","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T18:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/olemiss-education\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=1113"},"modified":"2019-05-20T16:05:34","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T16:05:34","slug":"foundational-understanding-informal-and-formal-assessments","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/olemiss-education\/chapter\/foundational-understanding-informal-and-formal-assessments\/","title":{"raw":"Informal and Formal Assessments","rendered":"Informal and Formal Assessments"},"content":{"raw":"<h2>Informal Assessment<\/h2>\r\nAs a teacher, you should always be gathering information about how much a student understands about the lesson being taught. This includes asking lots of questions during the lesson and having students explain back to you an idea\/skill\/concept they are learning. It is important to build these questions into a lesson plan so that you can adjust the lesson when necessary and ensure that students do not become confused or lost. Examples of informal assessment are:\r\n<h2>Formal Assessment<\/h2>\r\nA general rule of thumb is that \"if it is going in the grade book, it is a formal assessment.\" Formal assessments measure what a student has learned and serve as distinct markers for the progress they have made. Examples of formal assessment are:","rendered":"<h2>Informal Assessment<\/h2>\n<p>As a teacher, you should always be gathering information about how much a student understands about the lesson being taught. This includes asking lots of questions during the lesson and having students explain back to you an idea\/skill\/concept they are learning. It is important to build these questions into a lesson plan so that you can adjust the lesson when necessary and ensure that students do not become confused or lost. Examples of informal assessment are:<\/p>\n<h2>Formal Assessment<\/h2>\n<p>A general rule of thumb is that &#8220;if it is going in the grade book, it is a formal assessment.&#8221; Formal assessments measure what a student has learned and serve as distinct markers for the progress they have made. Examples of formal assessment are:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160900,"menu_order":8,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-1113","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":911,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/olemiss-education\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/olemiss-education\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/olemiss-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/olemiss-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/160900"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/olemiss-education\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1132,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/olemiss-education\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1113\/revisions\/1132"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/olemiss-education\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/911"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/olemiss-education\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1113\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/olemiss-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/olemiss-education\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=1113"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/olemiss-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=1113"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/olemiss-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=1113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}