In Sophia's Foundations of English Composition course, you will complete a series
of formative and summative assessments comprised of 6 Challenge assessments, 2 Milestone assessments, and 2 Touchstone assessments and tied to the following learning outcomes:
You will also see real middle and high school math co-teachers of Virginia discussing and demonstrating effective techniques they use for
formative and summative assessment in their classes, as well as how they use assessment to determine what they will teach and how they will teach it.
By the end of this training, participants will develop good analytical and reflective questions they can use to set the instructional focus and serve
as formative and summative assessments for deeper student learning experiences.
To develop an effective and manageable
formative and summative assessment strategy, with assessment FOR, AS and OF learning, the ASSESSMENT FOR LEARNING bundle provides a range resources for creative teachers to support their students and keep assessment records on track.
The resulting common language of instruction provides a foundation for powerful discourse about effective teaching, instructional feedback, and the collection and use of
formative and summative assessment data across a system.
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analyzed formative and summative assessment data to determine if students were making adequate progress, developed intervention plans for students not meeting expectations and created extension experiences for students exceeding expectations.
To develop an effective and
manageable formative and summative assessment strategy, with assessment FOR, AS and OF learning, the ASSESSMENT FOR LEARNING bundle provides resources for creative teachers to support their students and keep assessment records on track.
The teacher «tracks student performance immediately,» by grading students on - the - spot
during formative and summative assessments and entering his grades into the tracking system on the computer (i.e., «I also enter the students» grades immediately into my tracking system on my computer.
Differentiated Instruction: Using Ongoing Assessment to Inform Instruction addresses how teachers in differentiated classrooms should plan for
ongoing formative and summative assessments and how they can use results to better inform instruction.
MYP instructional planners»
formative and summative assessment component informs stakeholders how teachers build students» thinking skills (acquisition of knowledge and comprehension), social skills (cooperating and respecting others), communication skills (listening, reading, and writing) and research skills (collecting data, presenting data).
Formative and summative assessments Old - fashioned assessments consume much valuable class - time, are either simple - minded in construction or labor intensive to evaluate, rarely work well across a broad range of students (it takes far too many questions to differentiate at the low and high ends as well as in the middle), and their turnaround is too slow to yield useful information when you really need it.
This means, as Professor Geoff Masters said his Teacher article
Rethinking formative and summative assessment, you must «recognise that the essential purpose of assessment in education is to establish and understand where students are in an aspect of their learning at the time of assessment.
The handbook is organized according to how program inputs and outcomes have been conceptualized and validated in evaluation research on leadership preparation programs and will help program designers: 1)
Identify Formative and Summative Assessments; 2) Identify Measures and Outcomes (e.g., program and participant outcomes); 3) Evaluate the Relationship Between the Program Attribute and the Outcome; and 4) Use Data for Preparation Program Improvement.
Suggested individual or team activity: After reading more about the differences between effective communication in
formative and summative assessment contexts and reflecting on the information you find there and in this chapter, convene a meeting of colleagues and ask them to discuss those differences.
But the biggest contributor was promoting a Grading for Learning system with randomization of
formative and summative assessments allowing for continual re-teaching, interventions, support, and opportunities to show mastery of any topic.
As an SEL Professional Learning Specialist, her particular areas of focus include building and supporting Trauma - Informed educational communities, expanding SEL development, and
leveraging formative and summative assessments for developing student capacity.
The Silicon Valley Mathematics Initiative and the First in Math Consortium, both centered on high performance expectations, ongoing professional development, examining student work, and improved math instruction, are major research - based initiatives that
encompass formative and summative assessment systems, pedagogical content coaching, and leadership training and networks.