Title: Castle Rock Research BC Webbased British Columbia Formative Assessment System Overview
1Castle Rock Research - BC Web-basedBritish
ColumbiaFormative Assessment SystemOverview
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- Company Background
- Assessment Language
- Starting Up the System
- Schedule an Assessment
- Assessment Navigation
- Features and Reporting
- Contact
3Castlerock Research - Background
- Headquarters in Edmonton 13 years
- Print support materials for student learning
The Key, SNAPs - Customization of resources
- Niche - provincially specific resources matched
to the curriculum - Castlerock BC 6 years
- Electronic assessment tools
- SNAPs, KEYs and BC FA System Correlated
4Assessment Language
- Summative Assessment
- Assessment of Learning
- For grading or placement
- Formative Assessment
- Assessment for learning
- Identifies strengths and weaknesses
- Assessment as learning
- Learning takes place through the assessment
- Self assessment
5Formative Assessment Should . . . .
- Inform the student(s) and the teacher/parent
- Timely Feedback . . . . Immediately is best!
- Pinpoint misunderstandings or weaknesses
accurately - Be Low stakes
- No grading
- Completed when student and/or teacher is ready
- Be Flexible and easy to administer
6Formative Assessment Ought to . . . .
- Be Curriculum Specific - BC
- Strands/Organizers
- Authentic
- Developed and Reviewed by BC Teachers
- Lead towards Summative Assessments
- Be the most important form of Assessment
- Inform instruction and learning
7Formative Assessment Assumptions
- It is generally agreed that
- Formative Assessment NEEDS to be ongoing and
regularly practiced throughout the year
. . . . . . Vitally
important! - The process can be overwhelming and labour
intensive - Teachers most valuable commodity is . . . . . .
TIME!
8Formative Assessment Components
- Valid Assessments/Items - Construction
- Means valid data
- Marking
- Needs to be timely . . . Immediately is best!
- Teachers already have TONS of marking
- Data Analysis - Reporting
- Detailed links to curriculum TIME
- Critical and Integral to the Formative Assessment
Process - Must be accurate and timely in order to be
relevant - INFORMED instruction
- Dependent on detailed Data Analysis
9BC Formative Assessments
- Are 100 BC Curriculum Specific
- Developed and reviewed by BC teachers
- Use BC curriculum strands/organizers
- Questions are problem based (have context)
- Appropriate reading levels
- Not used for grading or placement
- Lead towards Summative Assessments
- which are used for grading and final evaluations
10BC Formative Assessments
- Assist students to self evaluate and set their
own learning goals - Guide instruction and learning
- Are Internet accessible
- Provide immediate feedback
- Are easy to use
11- BC Formative Assessments Website
- http//bcfa.castlerockresearch.com/
12Set Up New Class
13Add Students to Class
Select All if working on a Mock-up or Grade
if you have students registered.
14Add Students to Class
15Select Courses for the Class
You can select any of these courses for any grade
level.
16Name the Class
17Ready to Schedule an Assessment
18Flexible Scheduling
- Accessible
- On Demand
- Teacher Controlled
- Who gets access to what and when
19Scheduling Calendar
20Flexible Scheduling
21Science
22Mathematics
23English Language Arts
24Reviewing an Assessment
25BCFA System Features
- Dynamic, interactive reporting
- Flexible scheduling
- One day to many months
- Customize Student Groups
- Split classes
- Varied student groupings
- Whole grade
26BCFA - Informs
- Students, teachers, parents, schools and
districts through reports which - give immediate feedback
- provide detailed item analysis to accurately
guide learning and instruction - pinpoint gaps, deficiencies, misunderstandings or
weaknesses
27Four Interactive Reporting Forms
- Class Summary
- Class Results by Item
- Student Results on the Total
- Student Results by Item
28Class Summary Report
29Class Results by Item
30Item 4 - Unit 3
31Student Results by Item
32Link to BC Curriculum
33Student Results by Item
34Individual Student Report
This report is the same one that the student
receives when the assessment is completed. Many
students print and add to their portfolio.
35Real Time Monitoring
36BCFA - Assists Teachers
- Valid Items/Assessments
- 7500 items tagged to BC outcomes
- 20 35 items per assessment based on
subject/strand - 230 Assessments
- Assessments designed to take 40 minutes
- Saving time
- All grade levels and subjects available for any
student
37BCFA - Assists Teacher
- Marking
- Immediately marks the assessments
- Full item analysis
- Instant availability to students and teachers
- Share results with Learning Assistance teachers
- Correlated to BC Curriculum specific resources
for remediation and independent student study
38Online Support
39System and Administration Costs
- 10.00 (plus GST) per student Sep. 1 to Aug 31
- Added Value
- District Wide training and support is available
- Unlimited access and use to all subjects and
grade levels regardless of students grade level - Assessment revisions included
- All data storage included
- Basic hardware and browser PC or Mac
40BC Formative Assessment - Implementation
- Spring 2007 - Consultation with BC educators
- Assessments Aligned with BC Curriculum
- Interface Functional and Friendly easy to use
- Launched
- Mathematics Fall 2007
- English Language Arts Winter 2007
- Sciences Spring 2008
- Operation
- Alberta 4th year
- BC 2nd year
- Ontario 1st year
41BCFA Administered in 2008
- 13000 Assessments 5000 students
- Public Schools
- SD 23 Central Okangan SD 34 Abbotsford
- SD 69 Qualicum SD 43 Coquitlam
- SD 83 Shuswap SD 8 Kootenay Lake
- SD 5 Southeast Kootenay SD 75 Mission
- SD 42 Maple Ridge SD 36 Surrey
- Independent Schools
- Vancouver Chilliwack Nechako Lakes
- Surrey Coquitlam
- Distance Learning Environments
42System Mock-up
- Is available for
- Creating classes of fictional students
- Previewing assessments
- Take an assessment as a student
- View reports
- Contact Castle Rock Research at the following
numbers -
43Contact Information
- Dr. Jim Gaskill (Victoria)
- Ph. (250) 382-2345
- jgaskill_at_castlerockresearch.com
- Mike Proch (Kelowna)
- Ph. 1 (866) 882-8246 or (250) 868-8384
- Fax (250) 868-9146
- mproch_at_castlerockresearch.com
www.castlerockresearch.com