Evaluating Student Achievement

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Evaluating Student Achievement

• How do you measure if your students are learning?

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Question for you

• On a clean sheet of paper.
• Write down how measure student learning.

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Sound Familiar

• I taught them, but the average grade was a 34 .
  These students need to study harder.
• "I don't need to understand this, I just need to
  know an equation so I can pass the test."

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Agenda

• Become familiar with the differences between
  formative and summative evaluation.

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Formative and Summative Assessment

• Formative Assessment is intertwined with your
  teaching, it happens all the time.
• Summative Assessment happens at the end of your
  class and measures the students level of learning
  at that specific moment in time.

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Instruction and Evaluation

• Summative
• instruct instruct instruct instruct
• instruct instruct instruct evaluate
• Formative and Summative
• instruct evaluate instruct evaluate
• instruct evaluate instruct evaluate
• Instruction and evaluation happen at the same
  time.

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Your Evaluation Has to Match Your Objectives
What do your students need to learn?
Evaluation Make judgments
Synthesis Creates meaning
Analysis Break it down
Application Use a concept
Comprehension Understand meaning
Knowledge Recall or recite
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Formative Assessment

• Formative Assessment lets the student know how
  well they are grasping the material
• Formative Assessment lets YOU identify the gaps
  between what is being taught and what is being
  learned.

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Examples of Formative Assessment

• Just ask
• One minute paper
• Toughest point
• One sentence summary
• Application cards
• Mind Map
• Stop/Start/Continue

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Examples of Summative Assessment

• Here a few summative evaluation techniques other
  than test
• Test
• Portfolios
• Product-Based
• Performance-Based
• Journals Learning Logs
• Quiz and Test

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Advantages for the student

• Allows for a broad range of demonstration of
  knowledge
• Allows for legitimate self assessment.
• Individual strengths and abilities are
  recognized.
• Goals (objectives) are clearly stated in the
  beginning of a unit of study.

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Advantages for the Teacher

• Learning goals (objectives) are shared with
  students before material is introduced. Students
  know exactly what you want them to learn.
• Tests all 6 levels of Blooms Taxonomy.
• Gives a clearer and broader picture of each
  students abilities, strengths and knowledge.

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Questions
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