It always seems to be the way – start thinking about assessment (or any other topic) and ideas abound on that topic, literally without even trying.
Assessment is on my mind at the moment. The first thing that popped into my feed was this amazing post on assessment and Makerspaces. What Does Assessment Look Like in Makerspaces is PACKED with information. Seriously, if you have a Makerspace or want one or are just thinking of how to add more making, thinking, and tinkering into your school or classroom, this is an excellent place to start.
In working with teams at my own school, I returned to the work of Wiggins and McTighe. This gave me three things to share with colleagues – and now with you. I was firstly reminded of GRASPS as it relates to a summative assessment task:
I was introduced to this when I began teaching at Bonn International School in 2003. It is still my ‘gold standard’ when it comes to thinking about summative assessment tasks.
From here, I was reminded of a newer document. A checklist for performance assessment. The printed version is below. Below that, the short animated slideshow on checking the health of your summative assessment task, made with Adobe Spark Video.
https://spark.adobe.com/video/1d9MaHwVnqXKM/embed
Finally, I subscribe to Time Space Education blog. Today there was a new post on Learning Continuums. It is really interesting to see how this process of summative assessment is being tackled by different educators in different parts of the world. The author, Chad Walsh is seeking feedback on the ideas within this post. If you are at all interested in summative assessments and rethinking the way we create and analyse these, drop him a line or leave a comment on his post.
sonya terborg 
Thank you for sharing. This will be very helpful in practice as the students and I build on our assessment opportunities.