Just as with activities, when you change to an acquisition-oriented approach, all of a sudden your usual means of assessment don't actually assess what you're trying to teach anymore. Assessment is usually one of the first questions Latin teachers have when looking at beginning to use CI.

Eventually I will write some more coherent thoughts on assessment and more stuff to look into, but for now, here is a blog post I wrote after my first year of CI. It touches on a lot of the basic beliefs I hold about how to assess in this mode of teaching:
How I succeeded with CI & TPRS this year: Assessment

Reading Comprehension

Here are some of my favorite posts on assessing student reading comprehension.

• REALLY assess reading comprehension by Martina Bex
• Reading Activity or Reading Assessment? by Martina Bex
• End-of-term assessments by Martina Bex
• Assess proficiency with word-level analysis questions by Martina Bex

Proficiency-Based Grading

As you wade into the CI community, you will find a lot of people talking about PBG or SBG (Standards-Based Grading). You can do CI-oriented teaching without doing PBG. It just ends up making sense after a while. If you like rubrics, you will like PBG.

PBG in practice

• SBG - Putting it in Action by Miriam Patrick
• Standards Based Grading (SBG) - Making it Work in a Traditional Gradebook by Miriam Patrick
• Standards Based Grading - a mid semester update by Miriam Patrick
• Failures 2015-16: Grading by me, Ellie Arnold (spoiler: it didn't go well)
• Lance P.'s tag for Assessment: Not everything here is about PBG, but a fair amount of it is.

Rubrics, Rubrics, Rubrics!

• ACTFL Things: These are basically the granddaddy of everything below.
  • Proficiency Guidelines
  • Performance Descriptors
  • Can-Do Statements
• Linguafolio Self-Assessment Grid: Just a really compact version of the Can-Do statements document above. This is the easiest one to use and I keep coming back to it. Thanks to Justin Schwamm for showing me it in the first place.
• Standards for Classical Language Learning: a draft sub aegide ACL, but a collaborative project of many classical orgs. If I'm honest, I am not super happy with these. I tried to use them this year and found there were some really confusing things. Have a look at it though and be aware they exist.
• Proficiency Targets from Martina Bex: What I find particularly useful here is Daugherty's bicycles analogy, but her formatting is also good.
• Your State Curriculum Frameworks: Go look for those on your ed dept website. They probably exist, and you should probably be at least sort of aware of them. They make admins happy.