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Differentiated assessment is vital for encouraging students to express their understanding of outcomes. In early and middle years education, differentiated assessment is quite common. In high schools, a lecture and worksheet followed by a test environment can be more commonplace. With appropriate rubrics, differentiated assessment can provide all students with the opportunity to choose a preferred method to express their understanding. Such an environment fosters creativity and encourages all children to think outside the box.  \nDifferentiating Assessment in High School  \nThe increase in diversity among children in schools obligates educators to embrace differentiated instruction and assessment at all grade levels. This can be challenging as students reach the higher grades where tests and essays are common assessment strategies. Students are often subjected to tasks that require memorization rather than demonstrating creativity and long-term understanding. Teachers can provide students with alternative ways to express their understanding by incorporating rubrics, promoting inquiry, and providing students with choice by encouraging summative projects. Classroom environments that encourage students to find creative methods to demonstrate their understanding foster creativity.  \nExamining Alternative Strategies  \nDifferentiated assessment is common in early years and middle years education. 1 Tests, essays, and exams are common measures for establishing percentages in high school. These assessment strategies provide a raw score that is useful when calculating the final averages needed for university entrance and scholarships. A concern is that students often prepare for a test or exam by “cramming.” Another assessment provided shortly after the cram session could yield a lower mark, demonstrating that the student learned the material for the test but did not develop a deep understanding of the content. High school students are overwhelmed with many courses that contain a great deal of content. Teaching to a test or exam is efficient, but it is not necessarily an effective strategy. Teachers must foster critical thinking and recognize that“individual needs, strengths and weaknesses must drive instructional and assessment practice”(Watson, 2017, para. 2) . As an alternative, assessment can be “process-oriented, and multimodal” (Katz, 2012, p. 145) . Teachers can encourage students to investigate a topic independently by using a variety of methods of expression. A well-developed rubric can be used as a tool to evaluate differentiated assessments in high school.  \nProviding Rubrics  \nTeachers can provide rubrics to guide student thinking. A rubric is a “visual narrative of the criteria that defines and describes”(Balch, Blanck, & Balch, 2016, p. 20) the learning that must  \n1 Unless otherwise specified, the information in this article is from the author’s 14 years of experience teaching middle and senior years math, science, and French.  \nbe demonstrated on an assessment. With a well-constructed rubric, students “enter on any given topic at different points along the continuum” (Katz, 2012, p. 74) and leave at different places. Rubrics are sometimes created with a style that categorizes performance by using quantitative descriptors such as “all,” “most,” “some,” and “none.” These descriptors can be subjective and do not provide information about the skills that the student is demonstrating. An alternative approach could be to incorporate qualitative descriptors that include curricular outcomes and Bloom’s taxonomy adjectives (Katz, 2012) . Bloom’s taxonomy provides a list of adjectives that indicate distinct levels of complexity. In a rubric form, these descriptors inform students of the level of understanding they are currently demonstratin","cbCaifMYmlqnQErX","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaifMYmlqnQErX","pdf",388888,"English","# Differentiating Assessment in High School\n## Examining Alternative Strategies\n## Providing Rubrics\n## Using Inquiry Projects","[{\"question\":\"Why does the article recommend differentiated assessment in high school?\",\"answer\":\"It states that increasing diversity makes it challenging for students to meet expectations through uniform tests and essays. Differentiated assessment encourages students to express understanding in multiple ways and supports creativity and long-term comprehension.\"},{\"question\":\"What role do rubrics play in differentiated assessment?\",\"answer\":\"The article explains that rubrics guide student thinking by defining criteria and describing levels of performance. 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