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Quick Assessment Techniques for Classrooms

This document provides descriptions of several quick assessment strategies teachers can use in the classroom, including hand signals, index cards, one minute essays, analogies, concept maps, brief reflection periods, exit cards, and journal entries. These strategies allow teachers to check students' understanding of concepts in a short amount of time through verbal or written responses.

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Quick Assessment Techniques for Classrooms

This document provides descriptions of several quick assessment strategies teachers can use in the classroom, including hand signals, index cards, one minute essays, analogies, concept maps, brief reflection periods, exit cards, and journal entries. These strategies allow teachers to check students' understanding of concepts in a short amount of time through verbal or written responses.

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Quick and Easy Assessments

Hand Signals

Index Cards

One Minute
Essay
Analogy

Ask students to display a designated hand


signal to indicate their understanding of a
specific concept.
Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down, 5 Fingers 1-5
Scale.
Ask students to write on side 1: Based on our
study of _______, list a big idea that you
understand and on side 2: identify something
about ________ that you do not fully
understand.
A one-minute essay question is a focused
question with a specific goal that can be
answered in one minute.
Present students with an analogy prompt:
Concept 1 is like ___________ because

Prompt
Concept Map
3 Minute Pause

Exit Card
Journal Entry

Any of several forms of graphic organizers will


allow learners to see relationships between
concepts.
This provides a chance to stop, reflect on the
ideas that have been introduced, make
connections to prior knowledge or experience,
and seek clarification.
I changed my attitude about
I became more aware of
I was surprised about
I felt
I related to
I empathized with
This reminds me of
I can adapt
These are written student responses to
questions posed at the end of a class or
learning activity or at the end of the day.
Students record in their journal their
understanding of the topic. The teacher
reviews the entry to see if the student has
gained an understanding of the topic.

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