Ongoing Assessment (Formative) Knowledge

Knowledge Concepts Understandings

Good learning experiences = good assessments

Observable outcomes = Valid Assessments

LOW LEVEL

· Observe: use all senses

· Recognise

· Notice similarity / difference

· Tell

· Match: word – picture, word – description

· Name

· Label

· List

· Sequence

· Locate: information, on map,

· Find: word, sentence, literal answer

· Describe: what, how, when, who

· Discover

· Identify

MEDIUM LEVEL

· Match: word – definition

· Define

· Describe: what, how, when, who, why, so what

· Recall, repeat

· Recount. Tell story, events

· Outline

· Observe: with specific criteria

· Set goals: select topics

· Understand diagram

· Know where to find information

· Identify relevant information

· Gain information to answer a question

HIGH LEVEL

· Goal setting – ask inquiry questions,

· Identify issues,

· Develop hypotheses

· Explain: why, how, so what – example.

· Conceptualise

· Reproduce, replicate

· State and verify

· Generalise