Assessment 101 Part One Instructional Strategies Standards Assessment

Assessment 101 Part One

Instructional Strategies Standards Assessment

You Do Make a Difference ü One year study with “most effective teacher” and the “least effective” teacher (~Kati Haycock) ü Most effective teacher produces an achievement gain of 52 percentile points ü Least effective teacher produces a gain of only 14 percentile points ü Difference of 38 percentile points ü Students gain about 6 percentile points in academic achievement simply from growing one year older and new knowledge/skills gained from daily life

First Things First When we talk about assessment what are we actually assessing?

Something Old… Two Types of Assessment ü Formative ü Summative “When the cook tastes the soup, that’s formative; when the guests taste the soup, that’s summative. ” ~Robert Stake

Something New…on Formative? “All those activities undertaken by teachers and/or by students which provide information to be used as feedback to modify the teaching and learning activities in which they engage. ” ~Black and Wiliam

Something New…. on Formative ü Should begin immediately within a learning episode and span its entire duration; frequency is key ü Exist in different formats ü Allow students to reflect on their own mastery of the standards ü Allow students to evaluate their own progress of the standards ü All/most/any do not have to be graded

Something New…on Summative? “The purpose of summative assessment is to ‘sum up’ or describe what has been learned over time. ” ~Doris Redfield, Ed Roeber, and Rick Stiggins

Something New…. on Summative ü Usually occur at the end of the learning episode (independent lesson, whole unit, end of semester, or standardized assessments) ü Exist in fewer formats ü Not a tool for student reflection (too late) ü Allow teachers, etc. to evaluate the students’ mastery of the standards ü Most often expressed as a grade or score

Formative vs. Summative Use the cards and stickers on your table to complete the below activity… üCreate 3 categories for the assessment types. üSummative üFormative üNot sure üCategorize each item into one of these categories.

What Do You Think? How has today’s session challenged your thinking on assessment? Write your thoughts down on a post-it note at your table.

Something to Think About… Characteristics of Feedback from Classroom Assessment Percentile Gain or Loss in Student Achievement Right/wrong -3 Provide correct answer 8. 5 Criteria understood by students vs. not understood 16 Explain 20 Student reassessed until correct 20 Displaying results graphically 26 Evaluation (interpretation) by rule 32 ~Marzano, Classroom Assessment & Grading That Work