THREE LEVELS OF ASSESSMENTS

What are the Three Levels of

Assessment?

Who Assesses?

What is Assessed?

Where?

How?

How Many Assessments?

Potential Actions?

Classroom Assessments

School/Program
Level Assessments

Institutional/Accountabilit
y
Level Assessments

The classroom teacher

Teacher teams, Teacher

leaders, Principals and
curriculum personnel.
If the students are mastering
standards and the teachers
method of teaching.

Superintendents, School
boards and legislatures.

Each students individual

learning

In the classroom

In the school by grade level or

department.

By giving diagnostic,
formative and summative
assessment.

By using interim benchmark

or
Short cycle assessment.

Continuous assessments
throughout the year.
It tells the teacher if the
students are ready to move
on to the next unit or if there
is a need to reteach. Teachers
who check in frequently and
in different ways on student
learning gain more
information and help students
to grow in the process.
Assessment activities are of
sufficient quality so that
results can be used with

Periodic assessment
throughout the year.
Team developed common
assessments help identify
curricular areas that need
attention because many
students are struggling. It
helps each team member
clarify his /her teaching
strengths or weaknesses. In a
culture that is focused on
learning, centering,
certifying, and celebrating
these assessments

Whether the students of the

school have mastered the
standards or not. To evaluate
and improve student learning.
School as a learning
institution.
Formative and Summative
assessments in the form of
standardized accountability
tests.
An annual assessment.
At the school level,
these permit teachers
to identify standards
where students
struggle and to use
that information for
program improvement.
This systematic and
thorough process uses
multiple qualitative
and/or quantitative
measures that

confidence to inform
decisions; and include direct
evidence of student learning.

helps prove our results.

Interim common assessment
identifies students who arent
mastering the intended
standards and need timely
and systematic interventions.
Teachers may use interim
assessments to identify
concepts that students are
struggling to understand,
skills they are having difficulty
mastering, or learning
standards they have not yet
achieved so that adjustments
can be made to lessons,
instructional techniques,
and academic support.

maximize the use of

existing data and
information, that
clearly and
purposefully relate to
the goals being
assessed.