Teachers will need to identify and develop a wide range of assessment tools, as well as design useful record-keeping systems. Time for teachers and specialists to come together is critical to these efforts. Background and Key Ideas Formative and Summative. There are two major types of assessment, both important. Summative assessments occur after learning objectives were to have been completed.
Formative assessments occur while learning objectives are still being pursued.
They provide an opportunity to identify emerging problems and intervene. Grade level reading. Ohio's Fourth Grade Reading Proficiency Test. Ohio fourth graders are tested on their ability to construct meaning and examine and extend meaning after silently reading both fiction and nonfiction selections. Items that test the ability to construct meaning require students to summarize text, use graphic aids to locate or interpret information, demonstrate understanding of text by retelling it in written form using their own words, and identify and interpret vocabulary that is critical to the meaning of the text.