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Assessment Overview

We know that measuring success goes beyond tests and quizzes. The Wit & Wisdom® approach to assessment puts the focus on giving educators the information they need to help students develop the grade-level reading and language skills necessary for college and career success.

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What kind of assessments does Wit & Wisdom include?

Wit & Wisdom prepares students to develop deep, foundational content knowledge and strong, transferrable skills for reading, writing, and language. Students build vocabulary and learn to approach complex reading and writing tasks that address grade-level literacy standards.

Each Wit & Wisdom module includes several types of formative and summative assessments, giving teachers visibility into student learning.

End-of-Module Task
One per module

Socratic Seminars
Two+ per module

New-Read Assessment
Two-three per module

Focusing Question Tasks
Three-six per module

Check for Understanding
At least one per lesson


Summative and Formative Assessments

 

Checks for Understanding

Checks for Understanding or CFUs are informal lesson-level assessments included in each Wit & Wisdom lesson. A CFU can be text-dependent, skill-dependent, or both. CFUs are embedded within the lesson so as not to interrupt teaching and learning.


 

Focusing Question Task

At the end of each Focusing Question Arc, students demonstrate their knowledge and skills by completing a Focusing Question Task.


 

New-Read Assessments

New-Read Assessments measure students’ ability to transfer select reading and language skills to a new, unfamiliar section of text.


 

Socratic Seminars

Socratic Seminars are student-led collaborative discussions on a thought-provoking question related to a module’s content.


 

End-of-Module Task

The End-of-Module Task is students’ opportunity to demonstrate their knowledge and skills. The task provides an answer to the Essential Question and requires students to incorporate evidence and learning from module texts.

The End-of-Module Task is students’ opportunity to demonstrate their knowledge and skills. The task provides an answer to the Essential Question and requires students to incorporate evidence and learning from module texts.

Socratic Seminars are student-led collaborative discussions on a thought-provoking question related to a module’s content.

New-Read Assessments measure students’ ability to transfer select reading and language skills to a new, unfamiliar section of text.

At the end of each Focusing Question Arc, students demonstrate their knowledge and skills by completing a Focusing Question Task.

Checks for Understanding or CFUs are informal lesson-level assessments included in each Wit & Wisdom lesson. A CFU can be text-dependent, skill-dependent, or both. CFUs are embedded within the lesson so as not to interrupt teaching and learning.


Digital Assessment and Data Reporting with Wit & Wisdom Affirm

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Wit & Wisdom Affirm® is an interactive platform that empowers educators to evaluate student performance and differentiate instruction to ensure that your students succeed in the classroom. The platform provides instant scoring and reporting to help track student progress over time on assessments that are fully aligned to Wit & Wisdom.

Wit & Wisdom Affirm includes

  • more than 250 curriculum assessments for Grades 2 through 8;
  • multiple choice, short answer, essay, and drawing questions that are based on texts and content from Wit & Wisdom modules;
  • digital and PDF assessments; and
  • automatically scored assessments and generated reports on student and class performance.
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Watch this webinar to learn more about the role of assessment in Wit & Wisdom and see how curriculum-embedded assessments can provide powerful and efficient evidence for responding to student needs.