3-Dimensional Assessment
How can you make science learning fun, while gathering useful data points to inform instruction?
At Kognity, we believe that assessment is a key tool to achieving both of these goals. By weaving NGSS-aligned, multi-dimensional assessment opportunities into a cohesive learning journey, we enable students to develop their critical thinking skills while teachers gather actionable insights to guide and differentiate their teaching.
Performance Tasks
Performance Tasks are three-dimensional summative assessments that feature at the end of every Kognity module. They are transfer tasks that are based on the focal performance expectation of the module, but address a different phenomenon.
Key benefits
- Although designed to be summative, Performance Tasks can be engaging and used as formative activities in solo or group settings.
- Modeled after state science tests to build student familiarity with content and assist teachers with preparation.
- Each Performance Task includes an answer key and rubric to streamline the evaluation process for teachers.
Quizzes
Quizzes are formative, auto-graded assessment opportunities that appear throughout the Explore, Explain and Elaborate lessons of each module.
Key benefits
- Are graded automatically by the Kognity platform, saving teachers time on evaluation.
- Provide lower stakes opportunities for students to develop and show their sense-making.
- Provide immediate feedback to students, giving them control over their learning.
Additional Formative Assessment Opportunities
Other formative micro-assessment opportunities are intrinsic to the three-dimensional learning experience in Kognity. Designed to enhance active learning and engagement, these provide students with the space to reflect, inquire, and check their own understanding as they go.
The Driving Question Board
Kognity’s Driving Question Board is the first step for students to take a more active role in their three-dimensional learning. As a part of each unit, teachers and students work together to create a set of questions, grouped into categories, that will guide them through their science learning. Students share their questions and wonderings in an informal way (which teachers can then record in the platform, for ease). Teachers can gauge students’ comfort levels and competence from the questions they ask.
Reflection Questions
These open-ended questions appear at the end of the Engage, Explore, Explain, and Elaborate lessons. These encourage students to think about what they have learned, what they know now and what they want to learn next. Teachers can view student responses and provide feedback.
Open-ended Questions
Open ended questions appear throughout the Kognity learning journey and are intended to encourage students to pause, inquire, and reflect.
Knowledge-check Questions
These are simple, automarked questions included periodically within each module. Largely focusing on Disciplinary Core Ideas, they enable students to quickly test their current level of understanding and boost sense-making.
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