Designing Differentiated Assessments

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This post is a continuation of module 5, which was about formative assessments.  After creating 3 formative assessments, I had to then design differentiated assessments to meet the needs of all students in my class, not just the high level students.  The first one that I did was on my student Louis, who is pictured here.  Louis was a student that I taught last year.  I really liked him and we got along very well, but he is definitely someone who would benefit from being on an IEP.  I did differentiate with regards to homework for Louis, but never for assessments (the thought never occurred to me).  Going forward in the future, I might try to keep that in mind, although I do worry about complaints of unfairness.  


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