The third webinar in LPI's series, Achieving Equity Through Deeper Learning, explored how states are using and sharing information on
deeper learning assessments.
Not exact matches
As we dig
deeper into the
assessment, we
learn that most companies have no formal SQL process and often go to proposal without ever completing a defined qualification process.
AISL seeks to advance new approaches to and evidence - based understanding of the design and development of STEM
learning in informal environments; provide multiple pathways for broadening access to and engagement in STEM
learning experiences; advance innovative research on and
assessment of STEM
learning in informal environments; and develop understandings of
deeper learning by participants.
Performance
assessments like these allow us to check not only for engagement, but also for
deeper learning through 21st - century skills.
When the Board questions the CEO about the knowledge initiatives of the organization, the CEO questions the business heads, and so on and so forth.Key managers can dig
deep into
learning tools to find out how much
learning has been consumed, how many people have attended classroom training, and whether everyone attempted the
assessments.
How are you designing new
assessments to measure
deeper learning?
This experience is described by one school district who implemented the Common Formative
Assessments 2.0 process as they dived
deeper into their implementation of Visible
Learning.
With good
assessment practices, PBL can create a culture of excellence for all students and ensure
deeper learning for all.
«NAPLAN does not replace the much
deeper, more sophisticated and more frequent formative or summative
assessments of student
learning done by school teachers, nor does it provide judgement on how «good» a student, teacher or school might be,» Dr Hinz says.
Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting
deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and
deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote
deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate
assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified
learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and
deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).
Test Drive: New Hampshire Teachers Build New Ways to Measure
Deeper Learning (The Christian Science Monitor) Dan Koretz discusses performance - based
assessments as states adopt new plans under the Every Student Succeeds Act.
The most robust array of online programs, the
deepest, inquiry - based
learning experiences, and the most sophisticated
assessments will never erase students» need for human connection and adaptability.
These criteria can be used by
assessment developers, policy makers, and educators as they work to create and adopt
assessments that promote
deeper learning of 21st - century skills that students need to succeed in today's knowledge - based economy.
Findings suggest that quasi-repetitive projects can lead to higher scores on the AP test but a floor effect on the
assessment of
deeper learning.
As I recently heard Susan Patrick, head of iNACOL, explain, competency - based
assessment has huge implications for accountability 3.0: in competency - based systems we will hopefully have more and
deeper evidence of student
learning by which we can in turn assess school and providers efficacy and hold them accountable for their students» track record.
So are schools where teachers have 120 or more students to get to know (with this 120 shuffled at the end of each semester); where serious
learning is broken up into snippets of 50 - minute «subject matter periods» arranged in no intellectually coherent order; where
assessment keeps knowledge tightly packaged in separate intellectual domains; where short - term memory work is rated as deserving the highest value at the expense of original, long - term analytic work; and where the intellectual engine of the curriculum comes at most students and teachers as a list of subjects and skills, usually far too long for the careful savoring and devoted practice that leads to
deep understanding and worthy habits.
Where progress is understood differently — to mean «increasing «proficiency» reflected in more extensive knowledge,
deeper understandings and higher - level skills within a domain of
learning» (Masters, 2017)-- an emphasis only on reporting achievement on summative
assessments would give very little sense of a child's progress from where they began.
Hill and her colleagues found that teachers»
deep and flexible understanding of math concepts, reflected in their higher scores on the
assessment, helped them provide richer
learning opportunities for students.
Or do the students seem relaxed and engaged as teachers experiment with new forms of
assessment designed to support
deep and lasting
learning?
Look for ways to improve the Common Core State Standards and related
assessments so that they become better measures of
deeper learning.
We need new systems of support and professional development for teachers and we need state and national policies and
assessments that privilege
deeper student
learning.
Assessments FOR
Learning — all assessment and evaluative efforts including a focus on supporting and motivating deeper and broader learning progress, beyond traditional student
Learning — all
assessment and evaluative efforts including a focus on supporting and motivating
deeper and broader
learning progress, beyond traditional student
learning progress, beyond traditional student sorting.
In particular, the presenters will address ways that
assessment in schools can become more personalized and better integrated with
learning, and used to provide
deeper and timely information to educators.
Proponents say that this form of
assessment allows students to be active participants in their
learning, and that it facilitates
deeper learning.
Deep - dive into the role of
assessment when designing personalized
learning environments.
A researcher at Project Zero since 1988, she studies and supports practices for engaging both students and educators in
deep learning and thinking, particularly through reflection, collaborative inquiry, documentation of student
learning, and the collaborative
assessment of student and teacher work.
It is observed that traditional
assessment methods are often not well aligned with current understandings of
learning, and are of limited value for assessing
deep understandings, life skills that develop only over extended periods of time, or more personalised and flexible forms of
learning.
A school that is dedicated to
deeper learning is a school that has established a coherent, schoolwide, standards - aligned performance
assessment system.
Refocus schools on building
deeper learning competencies by supporting policy reform to improve education goals,
assessment, accountability and practice.
As Linda Darling - Hammond has said, «The question for [U.S.] policymakers has shifted from «Can we afford
assessments of
deeper learning?»
I can not more highly recommend this course for those that want to delve
deeper into student
learning and
assessment.
In this book, the authors explain how project - based
learning can blend with Common Core - aligned performance
assessment for
deeper learning.
These
assessments provide timely information to educators about student proficiency on standards and
deeper learning skills such as critical - thinking and communications.
Collaborative brings a
deep understanding about the role of
assessment in transforming
learning and the systems that support it.
The paper, by researchers Christopher Dede, Tina Grotzer, Amy Kamarainen, and Shari Metcalf, describes the ways in which EcoXPT can support classroom practices that the NRC connects with
deeper learning: case - based approaches; self - directed, open - ended, and collaborative inquiry; apprenticed
learning; interdisciplinary
learning; and
learning that's embedded with diagnostic
assessments based on many sources.
The staff, working as a unit, builds the
assessments that drive instruction to
deeper ends for all students and a new
learning climate emerges.
We trained ourselves as observers to reliably document instruction in the lessons we observed based on our modification of Newmann «s
assessment of authentic instruction.313 We recorded what we saw and heard on an observation form that included two main sections: 1) basic information about the context, details of the lesson, how class time was used, how students were organized for instruction and
learning, the kinds of technology used during the lesson, and a description of any positive or negative features in the classroom; and 2)
assessments of instruction using four of Newmann's five standards of authentic instruction: higher order thinking,
deep knowledge, substantive conversation, and connection to the world beyond the classroom.
In the same way, multiple studies and polls provide us a
deeper understanding of different education stakeholders» thoughts on schools and
assessments, on what is working, and on what can be improved to best support student
learning.
Through our General Education curriculum, multi-level
assessment, and accreditations, MMCC ensures a
learning experience that is both broad and
deep.
The publication examines what it will take for the consortia to deliver on their ambitious goal to create next - generation
assessments that are better able to measure
deeper learning and assess students» abilities to apply standards in a real - world context.
This school year, I'll continue in - depth work with both small and large districts in implementing a variety of comprehensive strategies to support
deeper learning through coaching and
assessment development (Springdale, AR; NYC Schools; Gillette, WY; and several OH school districts).
Providing educators with research - based models for effective instruction and
assessment, moving students towards greater engagement and
deeper learning.
The Center engages in
deep partnerships with state and district education leaders to increase student
learning through more meaningful educational
assessment and accountability practices.
Teachers and administrators from across the country will gather for four days to re-imagine
assessment and accountability,
learn how to use performance
assessments to drive
deeper learning for all students, and develop materials and strategies they can implement in their schools and districts.
Implementing and revising performance
assessments helped educators shift their instructional practices to make
learning deeper and more meaningful for students.
These formative
assessment practices promote students»
deeper learning of content and achievement.
Students demonstrate
deep rigorous
learning through curriculum and
assessments that are culturally relevant and embedded in the wider community.
The Virginia Department of Education — supported by a $ 1.1 million grant from the Hewlett Foundation — is developing resources and regional and statewide professional
learning opportunities to help school divisions develop the capacity to design performance - based
assessments and provide instruction that supports
deeper learning.
Although competency - based education can vary depending on the context, high quality programs include three components: clearly defined competencies, broad and
deep curricula to support
learning and instruction, and rigorous, carefully designed
assessments.
Fundamentally rethinking the core roles that
assessment can play to support student attainment of
deeper learning.