1. By Daisy Guo
CHOICE AND
DIFFERENTIATION IN
ASSESSMENT

2.  The process of “ensuring that what a student learns,
how he or she learns it, and how the student
demonstrates what he or she has learned is a match
for that student’s readiness level, interests, and
preferred mode of learning” (Tomlinson, 2004)
THEORY BEHIND TODAY’S TOPIC
Teacher
can and
should
differen-
tiate
Content
Process
Product
According
to
students’
Readiness
Learning style
Interests

3. Middle
School
High
School
ELL Students 8% 23%
IEP Students 49% 34%
Overage Students 11% 18%
STHP(Students in temporary shelter) 22% 15%
Average ELA proficiency 1.89 2.17
Average Math proficiency 2.10 2.07
REALITY BEHIND TODAY’S TOPIC

4. CHALLENGE
Your work today
is to write a
conversation in
Chinese….

5. OR…
I am not doing it.
S$#%*,
F*&^$#...

6. Formative: daily, low stakes
Summative: end of a unit or semester.. High
stakes such as a performance task at the end
of a unit
This presentation will mix the above:
-reading
-writing
-listening
MIXED FORMATIVE AND SUMMATIVE

8. Differentiate the reading assessment into 3
steps.
1. Fill in the blank;
2. True or False
3. Answer the question (where other students will get
there directly)
 See scanned word document.
READING

9.  甲: (fill in blank): Please fill in the missing information
in the blank based on the reading.
 1.上午十点半，他打电话给林朋，接电话的是__________。
他说林朋去________买东西,下午一点半左右回来。
 乙: (True or False) Please mark “x” for ture and “√” for
right
 1. Lin Peng’s sister told Wang Li that he went shopping
in China town.
 丙: (answer the question after reading)
 Unfortunately Lin Peng became the suspect of a murder
case happened on the same day. You are Lin Peng’s
lawyer, can you please build a timeline of activates he
has done and the witness who can testify for his
activities.

10. Chinese word puzzle: cut a reading into pieces.
Teacher can even set different levels.
The lower level will be cut in less pieces and higher
level will be cut into more pieces.
Students need to put the pieces together based on
their English meaning.
They can work from an easy level to more difficult
levels.
Depending on student’s level, some students will even
have original text to help them put the reading
together.
READING & WRITING

11. CHINESE READING PUZZLE
English Meaning:
Xiao Ming’s family has
two bedroom, one study,
one living room and one
dining room. In addition,
there is also kitchen,
laundry room, toilet and
shower room. Living
room is all the way in
the front. Dinning room
is behind of living room.
Two bedroom is on the
right of living room.
Study is behind of
bedroom. Laundry, toilet
and shower room is all
the way at the back.

12. Graphic organizer
Sentence stem
Sentence with given options for each part
Sample writing in a similar task
Provide students choices
 See scanned document
WRITING

13.  Performance Task: you will need to write a skit “Devil wears
Prada” in Chinese.
 Two roles: one is the fashion devil boss; one is the fashion devil
boss’s assistant.
 Plot: The assistant needs to help organize a fashion show. She
has selected few sets of clothes for the runway but she needs to
seek the final approval from her boss. What would her boss say?
 Vocabulary: Your skit has to contain sentence structures we
learned from this unit:
 -Matching clothes;
 -Seeking opinion;
 -Giving opinion;
 -Asking for suggestion
 -Giving suggestion
 -Looking for missing things
 *Setting and things that you need to put in the parentheses to
explain the action can be in English
SAMPLE TASK

16. PROVIDE CHOICES
 situation 1:
 HSSIS is organizing an international trip. The president
of the student government wants to find out where
everyone has been already and where everyone wants
to go, as well as what languages students speak.
 Situation 2:
 A international company is hiring a salesperson. The
manager wants to find out the candidates travel
background and places he or she would like to go. The
manager also needs to find out the candidate’s
language skills
Role 1: president of the student government
Role 2: a regular student
Role 1: manager
Role 2: salesperson candidate

17.  Situation 3: the FBI is investigate Boston terrorist suspect and they
want to find out where he has been and where he wants to go and his
language skills.
FBI: 2014 你去过哪儿?
Terror suspect: 我哪儿都没去过.
FBI: 真的吗？你去过美国Boston.
Terror suspect:(sigh…) 我去过 Boston
FBI: 你会说Arab语吗?
Terror suspect: 我不会说Arab语.
FBI: 你会说英语吗?
Terror suspect: 我不会说英语.
FBI: 你会说汉语吗?
Terror suspect: 我不会说汉语.
FBI:(yell) You just said in Chinese!!!
FBI: 你想去哪儿？
Terror suspect: 我哪儿都不想去.
FBI: I think, 你想去heaven.
Terror suspect: (waiving head) 我想去洗手间.
SAMPLE WRITING IN SIMILAR SITUATION