The document discusses various ways that students have been assessed, both in educational settings like school as well as outside of school. It then provides examples of questions at different levels of Bloom's taxonomy, along with strategies for making questions more complex to move them up the taxonomy levels. The document concludes by discussing formative and summative assessment, and embedding formative assessments into instructional activities to continuously evaluate student understanding.

5. Strategies for “Bumping Up” Your Questions from Basic Knowledge Level AVOID STRATEGY INSTEAD Knowledge-Level Examples Higher-Level Alternatives “ What does listless mean?” Ask students to provide examples of concepts from their own experience. “ Describe a time when you felt listless.” “ What is a metaphor?” Ask students to describe similarities and differences between a new concept and an old one. “ How are metaphors and similes similar and different? Use examples from _____.” “ Define equity.” Ask students to apply the concept to something they have seen or read recently. “ Where have you seen equity demonstrated in current events you have read about or seen on TV?” “ Describe osmosis.” Ask students how they would explain this concept to a younger student “ How could you use a visual concrete method to explain osmosis to a 1 st grader?”

10. Interpretive Exercise

11. Example of an Interpretive Exercise © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. What does the person change? A. Facing B. Level C. Pathway D. Weight* 5. Use the following figure to answer item 5. Interpretive Material Item Stem Options Item directions

16. CLASSROOM ASSESSMENT

21. C-I-A Curriculum Learning Goals and Objectives: What do I want them to learn? Instruction: What will I do and what will they do – in and out of class – so that they learn? Assessment: What will they do to show what they have learned? Learners

28. The South Carolina Academic Standards

29. South Carolina State Department of Education Standards: http://ed.sc.gov/agency/Standards-and-Learning/Academic-Standards/old/cso / Social Studies English/Language Arts Math Science

32. for 10-minute Break