#FormativeTech shows how technology tools can energize teacher practice by providing easy ways to implement
formative assessment every day.
By: Paul Robb Everyone is talking about
formative assessment these days, and for good reason.
Everyone is talking about
formative assessment these days, and for good reason.
That's why there is so much emphasis on
formative assessment these days.
Not exact matches
After I finish teaching, I will spend an hour reviewing my
formative assessment data, an hour on lesson planning, and then I will be done with work for the
day.
After the «professional development
day» is over, how does a school or school district go about the process of moving teachers continuously in the direction of doing
formative assessment digitally and creating a culture that accepts and consistently implements this approach?
It's growing increasingly common for schools to use
formative assessments, classroom measures designed to steer
day - to -
day instruction based on what students have learned.
At the same time, with the rise of blended learning we are also seeing the rise of low - touch
formative assessments as a
day - to -
day reality in schools.
• Returning the results from any
formative assessments, like the MAP or iReady, to classroom teachers within one week and to parents within thirty
days.
You don't need to be a mind reader — you just need a
formative assessment toolbox, and you need to use it every
day.
The silver bullet for closing the achievement gap these
days seems to be
formative assessment.
Formative assessment and how to implement them regularly throughout the
day is one of those teacher skills that builds over time.
Minute - by - minute,
day - by -
day formative assessment can influence student learning, help close the achievement gap, and increase student engagement.
While there are many ways to engage students on a
day - to -
day basis using
formative assessment...
At Druid Hills the other
day, the MCLs were trying to determine whether the Exit Tickets from the Eureka Math curriculum were aligned to the Common
Formative Assessments students would take.
She administers
formative assessments including daily exit tickets as well as lab reports (which students are required to revise until they achieve mastery) and summative
assessments in the form of unit tests (i.e., «On our lecture
days when we're not doing labs, my students always have a five - question, exit - ticket style
assessment that they complete at the end of class to determine their mastery of the
day's objectives.I also use labs as a
formative assessment tool.»)
We use some sort of
formative assessment exercise to check for understanding at the end of the
day's lesson; we give end - of - unit
assessments; and our districts and states often take a specific week to give an end - of - course exam or grade - level
assessment.
In this one -
day institute, teachers, curriculum leaders, district leaders, school - based administrators, and higher education faculty will learn how to use tools and develop strategies to implement
formative assessments that link to the instructional shifts in the Common Core standards.
From
formative assessment to smarter grading practices, these one -
day sessions will teach you research - based best practices that you can implement right away to boost student achievement.
For example, teachers are beginning to design learning opportunities that mirror the math collaborative's
formative assessment lesson approach, including incorporating into their
day - to -
day instruction and student work the strategies of asking probing questions and engaging students in collaborative learning.
The book describes
formative assessment strategies to use every
day in every classroom and discusses how to respond to
formative assessment data.
In the third one -
day institute series, Using
Formative Assessment to Meet the Demands of the Common Core, educators will learn how to align the multiple measures of
assessment available with the CCSS and create a system of data collection and analysis to enable higher levels of student achievement.
Agile Assessment provides educators with flexible tools for creating high - quality
formative assessments and for capturing real - time data that can be used to affect student learning every
day.
Minute by minute,
day by
day, strategic
formative assessment can substantially improve student achievement.
While Marlene took three
days to conduct her
formative assessment, teachers can also collect relevant and robust data in a single
day.
Agile Assessment provides educators with flexible tools for creating high - quality
formative assessments to capture real - time data that can be used to affect student learning every
day.
Formative assessment involves teachers using evidence of pupils» understanding and learning to make decisions, minute - by - minute and
day - by -
day, about the next steps in teaching and learning.
In this practical guide for school leaders, authors Connie M. Moss and Susan M. Brookhart define
formative assessment as an active, continual process in which teachers and students work together — every
day, every minute — to gather evidence of learning, always keeping in mind three guiding questions: Where am I going?
In the classroom each
day, though,
formative assessment data can be especially valuable to teachers looking to move student learning forward.
Teams of teachers across the first 14 participating schools, all in the Bronx, are planning and teaching the same algebraic concepts at roughly the same time, embedding
formative assessment strategies in instruction nearly every
day.
If your students don't have experience with this — whether it's through low - stakes
formative assessment or high - stakes summative tests — they may struggle on test
day.
Unless any new
assessment system is accompanied by systems of multiple indicators to mute the distortions implied by Campbell's law, teacher capacity building to support better classroom practices, and greater emphasis on short - cycle
formative classroom
assessment to guide instruction, we may be doomed to repeat, in Groundhog
Day — fashion, the frustrations of the past.
DAY 2 —
FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT FOR CHILDREN BIRTH THROUGH THIRD GRADE: how to provide guidance to early learning staff in the use of assessment information to meet individual needs of children and improve practitioner / teacher practice and in
ASSESSMENT FOR CHILDREN BIRTH THROUGH THIRD GRADE: how to provide guidance to early learning staff in the use of
assessment information to meet individual needs of children and improve practitioner / teacher practice and in
assessment information to meet individual needs of children and improve practitioner / teacher practice and instruction.
OGAP Additive Reasoning professional development consists of 3 full
day and 4 half
day sessions organized around mathematics content, mathematics education research, and evidence in student work and instructional decision - making using
formative assessment and learning progressions.
I am quite sure the teachers with whom I was working this summer understood the difference between
formative and summative
assessment — we had just spent two
days exploring this very topic.
The district created an Early Success Performance Plan for the pre-K-3 grades that included aligned reading, writing, and math curriculum; ongoing district - designed diagnostic and
formative assessments at each age / grade level; extensive professional development for teachers; a prioritized focus on full -
day kindergarten and smaller class size for the district's most at - risk students; and both summer advancement and after - school programs for struggling elementary students.
Another difference is that traditional
formative thinking tends to want more frequent
assessment of student mastery of the standards themselves, while
assessment FOR learning focuses on
day - to -
day progress in learning as students climb the curricular scaffolding leading up to state standards.