COMMON FORMATIVE ASSESSMENTS MAKE A DIFFERENCE

Robert Landry, Teacher, Ebarb High School, Sabine Parish

Angela Peery, Consultant

drangelapeery.com

LEARNING GOALS

Understand the role of common formative assessments in the context of a school-wide literacy effort and a regular cycle of data collection

Examine a common formative assessment and the resulting data

Practice creating assessment items (traditional selected response, evidence-based selected response, and constructed response) aligned to a standard

CONTEXT

Why and how we began the work…

COMMON FORMATIVE ASSESSMENTS

What are they?

Why have them?

Collaborate and Create

Administer and Score

Teach

Administer and Score

Prioritize

SAMPLES

CREATING ITEMS

Traditional selected response

Evidence-based selected response

Short constructed response

Long constructed response

PRACTICE

RI. 9-10. 3

Analyze how the author unfolds an analysis or series of ideas or events, including the order in which the points are made, how they are introduced and developed, and the connections that are drawn between them.

PRACTICE

Work independently or collaboratively.Design several items that align with the passage about teacher tenure.

QUESTIONS?

CONTACT INFORMATION

Robert Landry landryr@sabine.k12.la.us

Angela Peery drangelapeery@gmail.com