This document provides descriptions of various assessment tools and strategies that teachers can use to evaluate student learning in non-traditional ways beyond traditional tests. It includes graphic organizers, interviews, observations, performance tasks, creative exhibitions, self-evaluations, journals, contracts, and portfolios that are designed to enhance student understanding and promote lifelong skills. These alternative assessment methods need not take away from learning time and can themselves be learning experiences.

2. enhance student content understanding and promote skills that will be beneficial to students throughout their lives. need not take time away from learning, can be learning experiences in themselves

3. A. Graphic Organizers Hypercard Stack Flow Chart Webbing Right Angle Chart Venn Diagram KWL Chart (What We Know Chart or Prior Knowledge Chart)

5. Flow Chart:

6. Hypercard Stack: (A computer application that allows students to link information in non-linear, visual formats)

7. Interviews Susitna Elementary Think/Talk Project Primary Math Interview Primary Science Interview Project Interview Questioning Suggestions High School Problem Solving Interview

8. Structured Interview:

9. Performance Task Interview: Collecting Data Data sheet: Materials: 10 colored flower pictures 4 red, 5 blue, 1 green Interview Questions: Comments 1) Sort the flowers by color 2) Place them on the chart paper in line above the same flower (model if necessary) 3) Which flower color is most common?

10. Observation Observation Checklist Problem Solving Observation Checklist Observational Inventory of Scientific Attitudes Detachable Labels 3x5 Card Notes Cooperative Groupwork--Checklist Cooperative Groupwork--Likert Scale Cooperative Performance Indicators--Holistic Scale

11. Performance Tasks Fishing Formulas Stop That Bicycle Task Mystery Powders Sink/Float Performance Task

12. Creative Performances and Exhibitions Use of Drama During Animal Observations Use of Dance in Teaching About Air Presentation Assessment Guide Pictorial Math Problem Solving Musical Concept Task Oral Contributions

13. Self- and Peer-Evaluations Problem Solving Rating Scale Portfolio Reflection Items Questions for Reflective Feedback Student Reflective Focus Questions: Problem Solving Observation Checklist for Peer- and Self-Evaluations Experimental Design Feedback Cooperative Groupwork Self Assessment Checklist

14. Journals and Learning Logs Reflective Log Fractions Journal Entry Learning Log Math Log Note Taking/Note Making

15. Contracts Elementary Contract Contract Likert Scale Learning Contract Sample Contract for a Project Contract Worksheet

16. Familiar Assessment Tools: Tests Fill in the Blank Matching Example True/False Short Response Essay

17. Scoring Guides Analytical Trait Scale for Multiplication Checklist Habitat Concept Checklist Habitat Concept Likert Scale Habitat Concept Analytical Trait Scale Habitat Concept Holistic Scale

18. Portfolios Science Portfolio Content Guide Math and Science Autobiographies Portfolio Entries for Young Children NCTM Draft Rubric Standards for Evaluating Math Portfolios For Young Children