Pre-Assessment

**Pre-assessment**: any method used to determine student content knowledge, student skill/ability and student interest.

 * To support teaching in response to student need
 * To make instructional decisions about student strengths
 * To determine flexible grouping patterns
 * To determine which students are ready for advance instruction

__Examples Of Pre-assessment Strategies:__
 * 1) Anticipation Journals
 * 2) Concept Maps
 * 3) DRA/Running Records.
 * 4) Drawing related to topic or content
 * 5) Entrance or Exit cards
 * 6) Essential questions
 * 7) Game activities
 * 8) Guess Box
 * 9) Journal responses
 * 10) Informational surveys/Questionnaires/Inventories
 * 11) Initiating activities
 * 12) Interest survey
 * 13) KWL charts and other graphic organizers
 * 14) Open-ended Questioning
 * 15) Picture Interpretation
 * 16) Portfolio analysis
 * 17) Prediction
 * 18) Self-evaluations
 * 19) Standardized test information
 * 20) Student demonstrations and discussions
 * 21) Student interviews
 * 22) Student products and work samples
 * 23) Table Top discussions
 * 24) Teacher observation/checklists
 * 25) Teacher prepared pretests
 * 26) Traditional tests
 * 27) Warm-up Activities
 * 28) Writing prompts/samples o any Pre-writing activity
 * 29) KW (Know, Want to Know)
 * 30) Professional Observations
 * 31) Conferences
 * 32) Pencil and paper pretest
 * 33) Information from skills checklists, portfolios or daily assignments

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