Teachers who use formative assessment as part of their everyday classroom toolbox... quickly identify
important evidence of student learning and separate it from distracting information, readily perceive meaningful patterns among their students» responses to questions and tasks, implement a broad range of formative assessment strategies automatically and flexibly as part...
This formative assessment technique engages all students and provides the all -
important evidence of student learning for the teacher.
quickly identify
important evidence of student learning and separate it from distracting information,
Not exact matches
Evidence is growing that
students do better not only socially but also academically when they feel safe and regarded as
important members
of a
learning community.
While there is considerable anecdotal
evidence that principals are
important — including various movies about the charismatic principal or the bumbling bureaucrat, there has been very little systematic
evidence about the magnitude
of differences among principals or about their impact on
student learning.
If you're wanting to use a STEM education program that hasn't been evaluated, Rosicka says it's
important to consider how the impact on
student learning will be measured and before you allocate any funding or staff time get in touch with the program provider and ask three questions: Is there existing
evidence of the impact
of this program on
students»
learning?
«Assessment boils down to
evidence of learning,» but the
important outcomes we should be evaluating in
students are in fact the most «hard to measure» and subsequently these qualities are simply not being assessed.
Student learning data represents an
important — but not the only — source
of evidence, used to inform PDP planning.
Historically, state and local policies have tended to treat all teachers as if they were equally effective in promoting
student learning, 1 but a good deal
of evidence amassed over the past decade documents enormous variation in teacher effectiveness.2 The effectiveness
of a teacher is indeed the most
important school - based factor determining
students» levels
of academic achievement, yet few state and district policies reflect this finding.
And equally
important, as you're collecting
evidence of a
student's
learning and understanding, how do you meaningfully report that
student's progress and proficiency?
It is still
important that teachers and their
students learn how to develop and participate in discipline - specific inquiries, which means
learning to manage research, organize data, and prioritize and unpack
evidence in the construction
of accounts and narratives.
How can teachers be enabled to collect
evidence of student learning that captures the most
important goals they are pursuing, and then to analyze and reflect on this
evidence — individually and collectively — to continually improve their teaching?
Additionally, majorities
of districts expressed concern about the reliability and validity
of certain assessment measures (including test scores), and over the years some districts have designed an
evidence - based teacher recommendation rubric that complements test scores by picking up
student attributes that are
important to
student learning (such as
student motivation).
Although attention to
learning outcomes is
important, the greatest benefits will be secured where multiple measures
of learning are combined with
evidence of practice to paint a meaningful picture
of how teaching influences
student progress.
As part
of a unified theory
of action,
learning targets compel all members
of the school to look for and
learn from what
students are actually doing during today's lesson to engage with
important and challenging content, develop increased understanding and skills, and produce strong
evidence of their
learning.