Entrance/Exit Passes - Use these activities to review student knowledge or level of understanding as well as provide opportunties for students to reflect on what they have learned. 

Tools Table - Exit Pass
McGraw Hill Teaching Tips (Enter/Exit Pass)
Mrs. Trimpe's Science Starters

Other resources ...
Class Starters - Do Nows & WarmUps
Class Starters for Math
Starters of the Day (Math)
Everyday Mysteries (Science)
Daily Dose (all subjects)
Language Arts Warm-Ups

Rubrics - Create rubrics for your students or use the free tools listed below to create them with your students.

Chocolate Chip Cookie Rubric (Good resource for teaching students how to use rubrics!)
Thermometer Rubric
Jigsaw Rubric
Smiley Face Rubric

More resources for rubrics ...

RubiStar - Use their free rubric maker to create your own rubric for any project or assignment! 
Rubrics for Assessment includes rubrics for peer-assessment for elementary, middle-school, and high school students along with a large collection of rubrics organized by subject area.
Assessment Rubrics are available for primary through high school students in a variety of formats that can be customized to your learning units.
Exemplars provides tools that teachers can use to help guide and maximize the student self-assessment process.  The Student Rubrics areas offers several unique tools for student assessment.
Recipes4Success offers a rubric maker along with sample rubrics for primary, elementary, and secondary student projects.
Kathy Schrock's Rubric Resources page provides links for general resources as well as subject-specific rubrics.
Rubrics4Teachers offers a large collection of ready-to-use rubrics for all subject areas.

 

Checklists - Use checklists to help your students evaluate their journals, projects, or other activities.

Primary Checklist
How's My Writing Journal Checklist

Also try the PBL Checklists tool at 4teachers.org with your students to create checklists for your class projects.

 

KnowledgeSurveys/Skills Inventory - Use skills inventories or knowledge surveys to provide students with the opportunity to evaluate what they know about the concepts you will be covering in an upcoming unit.

Science Skills Inventory
Grade 5 Science Skills Inventory

 

Project Analysis Tools - Provide students with the tools and guidelines they need to evaluate their projects and portfolios.

Build-A-Nest Project (8th Grade Science)
Portfolio Assessment - More resources for assessment are available on the Teacher Vision website.

 

Graphic Organizers - Use graphic organizers to allow student's to assess what they know about a topic. 

Holt Organizers
Worksheet Works
KWHL - Worksheet Works

Other resources for graphic organizers ...
Education Place
Education Oasis
SCORE Graphic Organizers (Also check out their resources for journaling and rubrics)

 

Peer Review - Utilize these resources to provide opportunities for students to review their own as well as the work of their peers. 

Science Fair Project
Team Work Rubric (Elementary)
Team Work Rubric (Middle/High)

Need more resources?  Visit Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Assessment for links to online resources for rubrics, portfolio assessments, graphic organizers, and much more!