Balanced Assessment

What is Balanced Assessment?

Balanced Assessment is a continuum of using diagnostic, formative, and summative assessments to help improve instruction and provide feedback to students.

• Teachers use diagnostic assessments to measure students’ knowledge before instruction.
• Teachers use formative assessments to adjust instruction based on students’ progress.
• Teachers use summative assessments to measure student mastery of content and standards.

*** This is a working/draft definition that will evolve over time as the district iCouncil committee continues their work on this element of the instructional framework. ***

Coming soon:

• Other names that might be used in research literature
• Why it is important
• Connection to Danielson Model