What Does a Proficient Student Know and Do

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Test what test?
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Best Practices in AssessmentChristina
FritzAssessment Managerfritz_c_at_aps.edu848-8717
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Essential Questions

• Which assessment practices are effective?
• What are different purposes for assessment?
• How can assessments be differentiated?
• Which assessment methods are most effective for
  various standards?
• How do I analyze my short cycle assessment data?

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Main Purpose

• What is the main purpose that should drive
  classroom assessment?

To improve learning for all students
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Multiple Purposes

• What are the purposes for assessment?
• How are they used?
• Who uses them?
• What can they accomplish?

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How Are They Used?

• Progress of groups of students
• Effectiveness of instruction
• Quality of school processes
• Developmental level of individuals
• Diagnostic, formative, summative

• Instructional strategies
• Pace
• Remediation/ enrichment
• Differentiated instruction
• Staff development
• Standardization of practice across teachers

• Next lesson
• Next grade
• Standardized testing
• Lifelong learning

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Who Uses Them?
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What Can They Accomplish?
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Five Key Strategies

• Read the article on Formative Assessment
• Use the Grapevine Protocol for debriefing the
  article

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Five Formative Assessment Strategies

• Clarify, share and understand goals for learning
  and criteria for success with learners
• Engineer effective classroom discussions,
  questions, activities, and tasks that elicit
  evidence of students learning
• Provide feedback that moves learning forward

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Five Formative Assessment Strategies

• Activate students as owner of their own learning
• Activate students as learning resources for one
  another

Source Dylan Wiliam, NCTM Assessment Brief, 2007
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Formative Assessment Research Findings (Black
Wiliam)

• Strengthening formative assessments produces
  significant learning gains. This was true in
  studies of ages 5-21 and in multiple countries.
• Formative yields especially good results with low
  achievers

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Research on Formative Assessment

• Formative Assessment produces greater increases
  in students achievement than class-size
  reduction or increases in teachers content
  knowledge at a fraction of the cost.
• The effective use of formative assessment
  involves a change to the kinds of information
  collected from, and the kinds of feedback given
  to, students

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Formative AssessmentCost/Effect Comparisons
Source Dylan Wiliam, ASCD March 2007
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Formative Assessment
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Comprehensive Formative Assessment System

• Three Criteria
• Establish where students are with their learning
• Establish where they are going
• Establish how to get there

Source Dylan Wiliam, NCTM Assessment Brief, 2007
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Formative Assessment Framework
Source Dylan Wiliam, NCTM Assessment Brief, 2007
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Formative Assessment Research Findings (Stiggins)

• Look for teachers who
• Set and communicate achievement targets in
  advance
• Transform targets into appropriate assessment
  exercises
• Use frequent, descriptive value-neutral
  feedback to build confidence
• Adjust instruction based on results
• Promote regular student self-assessment
• Actively involve students in communicating status
  with teachers and parents

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What implications does this have for teachers and
school leaders?

• Might need
• To change attitudes/mindset
• Staff development to learn better ways to use
  assessment
• To increase frequency of assessments
• To change type of feedback given

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Ways to Use Formative Assessment

• List formative assessment strategies that you are
  familiar with (methods you use in the classroom,
  or have seen, or have heard of)
• Read the Teacher Formative Assessment Practices
• Read the Student Formative Assessment Practices
• Read Summative Practices

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I was wondering....        Is
it SUMMER yet? (okay...maybe not, but it is
break time)
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Assessment Methods
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Selecting Assessment Methods

• Essential Questions
• What is healthy eating?
• What is the moral of the Holocaust?
• How do we use sarcasm, irony and satire to
  communicate without saying what we mean?
• Is U.S. history a history of progress?

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Frequently Asked Questions

• Why do I have to do formative assessments?
• What is the difference between formative and
  summative assessments?

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Analyzing Assessment Data

• Data Disk
• Fall and Winter A2L data by NCLB Categories
• Student Level Data
• Sample Analysis Activity

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EXIT SLIPS

• Use one side of your index card to write Today I
  brought with me
• Use the other side of your card to write Today I
  am taking away
• Please give your card to CHRIS.