Ongoing/Formative Assessment

Assessment

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Let’s start with a question • What methods have you used to assess

students level of understanding of: o Content

o Skill

o Attitudes

o Behaviors

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Teachers can enhance or destroy

students’ desire to succeed in

school through the use of

assessment more than with any

other tool they have at their

disposal

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Supporting all students: the bridge Distinguished teachers are individuals who see

themselves as bridges over which students cross then

having facilitated their crossing joyfully collapse

encouraging students to create their own bridges.

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• Jot down your thoughts

• Share with a partner

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The word ‘assess’

Comes from the Latin verb ‘assidere’

meaning ‘to sit with’. In assessment, one

should sit with the learner. This implies it is

something we do with and for students

and not to students (Green, 1998)

Do with not for

First and foremost • We need to slow down and allow time for

investigative instruction

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3-2-1 • 3 ideas that resonated with me

• 2 questions that I have

• 1 way I can integrate what I learned into my

classroom

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Share with a partner

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Effective feedback is… Descriptive

Specific

Relevant

Timely

Empowering

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Everyone responds • What are the five important elements of

assessment?

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Focus on errors • Errors are never random – they provide enormous

insight into student understanding

Teachers must switch from evaluative thinking

to interpretive thinking in order to understand

student thinking.

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Feedback is…. • Specific: Based on the important concept in a

lesson

• critical for students to understand before you move

on.

• Timely: Asked throughout the lessons.

• Corrective: Every student must respond to the

question. You must be able to collect and interpret

the responses from all students very quickly

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Hands up classrooms create

• Answerers

• Hiders

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The Cycle of Formative Assessment

Identification of Objectives,

Goals, Standards

Targeted Instruction

Data Gathering

Data Analysis

Responding to Data

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Ongoing/Formative Assessment

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• Checking knowledge, facts, skills

• Check for misconceptions, buggy algorithms

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Place mat PMI

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minus

plus interesting

minus

plus

interesting

minus plus

interesting

Reciprocal Teaching Dialogue as

check-in • Summarize

• Clarify

• Generate a question

• Predict

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Examine both sides • His actions were

maladaptive

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• He was appropriate in

his actions

Response cards

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I know

I don’t know

I understand

I don’t understand

Correct

False

My mind is working

My mind shut down

Yes

No

A

B

C

D

Content Response Card

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Verb

Adjective

Noun

Setting

Character

Plot

Period

Question Mark

Exclamation mark

Bingo – Find a person who is able to Explain ongoing

assessment

Provide an example

of ongoing

assessment

What are the benefits

of OA?

Explain performance

assessment

Explain authentic

assessment

What are the key

points to consider

about effective per-

assessments?

Give 2 examples of

unauthentic

assessment

Explain the difference

between assessment

and evaluation

Which one of the 6

levels of

understanding do you

use most often?

Name 3 things you

learned since the

start of this course

Share one goal you

have set for yourself

next year to improve

your assessment

practices

Explain the value of

pre-assessment

List three strategies

to use for pre-

assessment

Self assessment is

important because….

Explain assessment

of, for and as

learning

Explain the difference

between validity and

reliability

Explain the term -

prerequisite skill

List the revised

Bloom’s taxonomy

What are the six levels of understanding?

What is the Latin root of assessment and what is its relevance to effective practice?

What are the 5 stages in the cycle of ongoing assessment?

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Checking in.. • Purple: cautious

• Yellow: on the launch pad

• Green: Moving up

• Blue: soaring

• Red: full speed ahead

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Mini Fan • Use clasp to bind strips of paper together

• Each strip has a questions, skill to review

• Ask students to choose 3 and review o Write 3 sentences with adjectives

o Conjugate 2 “er” verbs

o Review 9x tables

o 4 characteristics of protagonist

o List events in the story

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Before and After: Digestion Preview Review

Mouth

Pharynx

Epiglottis

Esophagus

Stomach

Small intestine

Large intestine

Questions Preview Review Comments

How many

physiographic

regions are

there?

I know this very well.

Where are they

located?

I need to review this again.

Why is Canada

divided into

regions?

What is the

vegetation in

one of the

regions?

I need to review this again.

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Partners A and B • Partner A talks for 1

minute summarizing

what was learned.

• Partner B talks for 1

minutes summarizing

but can’t repeat

anything that was

said by partner A.

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Partner A and B • Partner with someone

• Take out your handouts, notes

• Partner A begins, summarizing for 1 minute

• Partner B continues where partner A left off

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Let’s try – in pairs • Huh???? Aha!!!!

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Paraphrasing to summarize

• So what I’m hearing is…

• The bottom line then seems to be…

• Let me make sure I have this right. You’re

saying that…

Or

• So what the author is saying is…

• In other words..

• The gist of it is…

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Double Entry Journal • What I heard What I think

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• What you think you

know

• What you know you

know

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