Varied Assessments

Effective assessment requires many approaches—individual and group, informal and formal—to create a well-rounded understanding of student performance.

Evaluating groupwork presents a lot of questions: Should you rate the product or the process? The individual or the group? The amount of effort or the quality of the result? TCI offers tips and techniques for effective groupwork assessment.

Informal assessment of day-to-day activities benefits both you and your students. You send the message that every activity is important. And by identifying what works and what doesn’t, you are able to adjust your instructional plans.

In addition to classroom observations and evaluation of student materials, formal assessments are essential for measuring how much your students have learned. TCI’s programs offer carefully designed tests that move students through a progression of thinking skills, from comprehension to skills application to critical thinking. Test results in these three areas show you where students are succeeding and where they need more instruction.

If you order TeachTCI, technology for teachers, you get digital versions of assessments and an Assessment Creator where teachers can build customized assessments from our robust bank of questions. Teachers can also add, delete, edit, and sort questions and answers.

Research has shown that the TCI Approach improves student comprehension and retention.

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• Varied Assessments
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