I liked the metaphor regarding geocaching because it dealt well with the fact that every unit needs to have checkmarks and formative goals that you want your students to achieve as they make progress towards the overarching goal of success on the summative assessment. I felt that that particular metaphor did the best at bringing the idea of learning targets into the fold. The river I felt also did a great job on including the idea of differentiation by using tributaries to represent those times when you need to take a different approach for different students.
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Pre-Assessment and Performance Summative Assessments
Pre-Assessment and Performance Summative Assessments
Here is a link to my pre-assessment.
Here is a link to my performance summative assessment.
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Formative Assessment
What?
Here is a link to my performance summative assessment.
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Pre-Assessment & Performance Summative Assessment Reflection
What are your goals for making the pre-assessment even better?
I'm pretty picky about the layout and appearance of my quizzes and tests, so I would like to re-make the pre-assessment using Microsoft Word, but I don't have Word on this computer.
What are your goals for making the performance summative assessment even better?
After talking with Shawn and Eric, I would add in the creation of partners or small groups for students to work in while creating their design layout. The groups would be used to check each others work as they go along. Group members would look over each others area calculations before they are allowed to turn in their work. This would (hopefully) cut down on some of my work looking over and grading every single area of every single room on every single design.
What questions about assessments are circling in your head?
Not so much a questions, but a thought: How much time (and where will I find this time) will it take to continue this process for other units in the classes I teach? I understand that performance assessments might not make as much sense in every unit, but I would certainly be able to fit in additional ones somewhere, right?
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Formative Assessment
What?
Definition:
So What?
Examples:
Misconceptions/Non-examples:
What is the difference between formative and informative assessments?
Now What?
Formative assessments are ongoing practices that help both the teacher and student evaluate and reflect on how they are both doing, and what changes either or both might need to make to become a more effective teacher and learner.Characteristics:
- Helps to demonstrate what good performance is
- Can aid in the self-assessment of learning
- Provides high quality information to students and teachers about their learning
- Information provided to teachers can help the teacher to modify as needed
- Helps to facilitate communication between students and teachers
- Can build self-esteem of students.
Examples:
- Exit ticket
- A mid-unit quiz or a daily lesson quiz.
- Applications that can provide instant feedback in class. Google Forms, Poll Everywhere, student response clickers, small whiteboards, etc.
- Ten strategies for formative assessment from NWEA
Misconceptions/Non-examples:
- Any assessment that provides non-specific feedback.
- An assessment that is untimely doesn't provide necessary feedback
What is the difference between formative and informative assessments?
An informative assessment gives the teacher more of a sense of how the students feel about their understanding of a topic without providing the teacher with any actual insight to the students' ability to perform a given task.
Now What?
Create a Checklist to Assess ANY Informative and Formative Assessment
Post your Assessment Checklist below as a comment.
Create 6 or more formative/informative assessments for the unit that you have written a performance summative assessment.
Be ready to share how your informative and formative assessment embody the items on your checklist.
*Given during the learning process (timely).
*Assessments are varied.
*Used to guide instruction.
*Can provide opportunities to differentiate instruction.
*Used to guide students in their learning.
*Provides specific feedback to both the student and the teacher.
*Aligned to the goals in the summative assessment.
Post your Assessment Checklist below as a comment.
Create 6 or more formative/informative assessments for the unit that you have written a performance summative assessment.
Be ready to share how your informative and formative assessment embody the items on your checklist.
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- How many formative assessments are necessary before a performance summative assessment can take place?
- What are some ways that I can deal with the time constraints that I am under to match my classes to the required standards and still provide time for an effective summative assessment?
- What are some ways to bring technology into the process?
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