"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.
Examples
of Pre-assessment Strategies:
1. Anticipation journals
2.
Concept Maps
3.
DRA/Running Records
4.
Drawing related to topic or content
5.
Entrance or Exit cards
6.
Game activities
7.
Guess Box
8.
Informational surveys/Questionnaires/Inventories
9.
Initiating activities
10. Interest
survey
11. KWL
charts and other graphic organizers
12. Open-ended
Questioning
13. Picture
Interpretation
14. Portfolio
analysis
15. Prediction
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16. Self-evaluations
17. Standardized
test information
18. Student
demonstrations and discussions
19. Student
interviews
20. Student
products and work samples
21. Table
Top discussions
22. Teacher
observation/checklists
23. Teacher
prepared pretests
24. Traditional
tests
25. Writing
prompts/samples or any Pre-writing activity
