Welcome To Formative Assessment For Beginners
Partner Activity: Break into groups of 2 or 3, and discuss the following questions: Why do you assess students? What different purposes do your assessments server? Make a list and write them down on the whiteboard.
Whole Group Sharing: Share the main points from the discussion first two questions Consider your conversation. What purpose do your assessments serve your students and your lesson planning? Please share some examples.
Partner Activity: Break into groups of 2 or 3, and discuss the following questions: Think of two students in your class(es), one who is particularly strong, and one who is finding the work very difficult. Take turns describing the students strengths and difficulties in as much detail as possible. How did you become aware of these strengths and difficulties? On what evidence do you base your judgments? Test results? Memories of oral responses during lessons? Observations of the students working? Written work? In what ways do your assessments of these students affect your lesson planning? Give examples.
Whole Group Sharing: Share the main points from the discussion questions Consider your conversations. In what ways do your assessments of the students you spoke of affect your lesson planning? Please share some examples.
TransFormative Assessment Enhancing learning, during the learning Formative assessment represents evidence-based instructional decision making. If you want to become more instructionally effective, and if you want your students to achieve more, then formative assessment should be for you. Popham (2008), p. 15
What is Formative Assessment: It is the use of assessment to provide feedback opportunities for teachers to make adjustments to the ways in which they deliver instruction. These activities can lead to improved student success.
Five Pillars of Formative Assessment: Clear Learning Targets Effective, Quality Questioning Descriptive, Actionable Feedback Students as Self Assessors Students as Peer Assessors
What is Formative Assessment? Formative assessment (performances, pieces, or works) can be used to shape and improve the student's competence Summative assessment is concerned with summing up or summarizing the achievement at the end of a unit or course.
What is Formative Assessment: Crucial Distinction Assessment OF Learning (Summative): How much have students learned as of a particular point in time? Assessment FOR Learning (Formative): How can we use assessment to help students learn more?
What is Formative Assessment? Feedback is a key element. It must be descriptive, useful, and is usually defined in terms of how successfully something has been or is being done.
Does research support formative assessment practices? The research evidence suggests that when formative assessment practices are integrated into the minute-to-minute and day-by-day classroom activities of teachers, substantial increases in student achievement of the order of a 70 to 80 percent increase in the speed of learning are possible, even when outcomes are measured with externally-mandated standardized tests. Indeed, the currently available evidence suggests that there is nothing else that is remotely affordable that is likely to have such a large effect. Taken From: From teachers to schools: scaling up professional development for formative assessment Siobhan Leahy (Edmonton County School, Enfield, UK) & Dylan Wiliam (Institute of Education, University of London)
Does research support formative assessment practices? Research Shows Score Gain Equals: 35 Percentile Points 2-4 Grade Equivalents 100 SAT Score Points 5 ACT Composite Score Points U.S. TIMSS scores; move from the middle to top 5
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Exit Slip For Today: Before you leave, please fill out the following information on the exit slip provided What formative assessment activities did you find to use in your classroom? How will you use the data you gain from it?