1. Pre-Assessment Strategies
"Assessment is today's means of modifying tomorrow's instruction."
Carole Tomlinson
Pre-assessment: a way to determine what students know about a topic before it is taught.
It should be used regularly in all curricular areas
• To make instructional decisions about student strengths and needs
• To determine flexible grouping patterns
• To determine which students are ready for advance instruction
Examples Of Pre-assessment Strategies:
1. Anticipation journals 13. Picture Interpretation
2. Concept Maps 14. Portfolio analysis
3. DRA/Running Records 15. Prediction
4. Drawing related to topic or 16. Self-evaluations
content 17. Standardized test information
5. Entrance or Exit cards 18. Student demonstrations and
6. Game activities discussions
7. Guess Box 19. Student interviews
8. Informational 20. Student products and work
surveys/Questionnaires/Inventori samples
es 21. Table Top discussions
9. Initiating activities 22. Teacher observation/checklists
10. Interest survey 23. Teacher prepared pretests
11. KWL charts and other graphic 24. Traditional tests
organizers 25. Writing prompts/samples or any
12. Open-ended Questioning Pre-writing activity
POST ASSESSMENTS • Consult with the class facilitator or
person responsible to plan next steps.
The post assessment provides data on changes
• Determine your "needs" date based on
that have occurred since the previous
your planned follow-up, which could be
assessment. In order to complete a post
additional training, a special session to
assessment, an initial pre assessment must have
review the new profiles, returning the
been submitted and scored and a profile received
profiles directly to the participants, etc.
by the respondent.
Review the Assessment Process
Schedule to help you develop your
• It is recommend that a post timelines.
assessment be administered approximately
3 months after the initial assessment. • Create a new class roster. You may
want to eliminate participants who have
• If you did not preorder post moved to other assignments or who are no
assessments, you can place your order at longer with the organization. You may want
that time. to add a participant who missed taking the
post assessment at an earlier date. Do not
• If you preordered post assessments, include participants who are taking the
your materials or your list of post ePID assessment for the first time.
numbers were included with your initial
assessment order. Post assessment • Refer to Assign Assessment
materials have a shelf life of 1 year from Packages and follow the standard
purchase. directions. Make sure you are using "post"
assessment materials or post ePID
numbers.

2. • Refer to Complete Activation Form.
Enter the names and PID numbers that you
have assigned to each participant. There is
no limit to the number of names per class
roster.