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Stage 2 Assessment
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Thinking Like an Assessor

• Making assessment Stage 2 is the most unnatural
  part of UbD
• The natural thing to do is to move from target
  to teaching
• For most of us, it is unnatural to resist the
  urge to go immediately to activities

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Why Is Assessment So Important?

• It helps us and our students see how the teaching
  and learning is going
• Assessment should be ongoing and formative as
  well as summative

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How do we assess for understanding?

• We use the six facets of understanding as a guide

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A student who really understands can

• Explain
• Interpret
• Apply
• Show perspective
• Demonstrate empathy
• Reveal self-knowledge

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Design Filters for Assessment

• Valid
• Reliable
• Sufficient
• Authentic
• Feasible
• Student-friendly

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Two Key Questions

• Could the student perform well on this assessment
  and still not really have deep understanding?
  (false)
• Could the student perform poorly on this
  assessment despite having deep understanding?(fals
  e -)

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Baseball Example

• We wish to assess the batting ability of a
  baseball player
• We choose for our assessment to observe their
  performance at the first at-bat of the season

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Apply the Design Filters

• Valid
• Reliable
• Sufficient
• Authentic
• Feasible
• Student-friendly

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Summary Evaluation

• This assessment is a valid test of batting
  ability but it is not reliable, nor does it
  provide sufficient evidence. It is authentic,
  feasible, and friendly. Overall, however, it is
  not a good assessment of what we are trying to
  measure.