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MakingConnections

Assessment

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Assessment

Facilitator/s:

Date:

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Workshop purpose

You are here to develop your knowledge and

understanding of the PrimaryConnections embedded

assessment processes and to experience their application

in PrimaryConnections curriculum units.

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Workshop outline (90 minutes)

INTRO: Purpose, outline, outcomes(5 mins)

ENGAGE: Capture participants’ interest and elicit ideas about assessment and(20 mins) its purposes

EXPLORE: Explore assessment through teacher and student perspectives(15 mins)

EXPLAIN: Explain the differences between diagnostic, formative and(25 mins) summative assessment processes

ELABORATE: Apply questioning techniques in the embedded assessment (15 mins) processes

EVALUATE: Summarise, reflect and evaluate(10 mins)

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Outcomes

On completion of this module participants will be able to:

• compare assessment 'for' learning, 'of' learning and 'as' learning

• compare the purposes of diagnostic, formative and summative assessment processes

• describe examples of assessment processes appropriate to each of the 5Es phases and embedded in PrimaryConnections curriculum units

• describe appropriate questioning techniques for diagnostic, formative and summative assessment processes in PrimaryConnections.

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Assessment ‘for’ learning

Gathering information about the gap between where the student is and needs to be.

Students learn best when they:• understand clearly what they are trying to learn and what is expected of them• are given feedback about the quality of their work• are given advice on how to make improvements• are fully involved in deciding what needs to be done next and who can help if needed.

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Assessment ‘of’ learning

Gathering and working with evidence to enable teachers and the wider assessment community to evaluate students’ progress.

Judgements about the extent and quality of student learning need to be:

• based on sound criteria negotiated with and known to students

• reliable and accurate.

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Assessment ‘as’ learning

Reflecting on evidence of learning and the processes of learning.

Reflecting on the learning process helps students focus on:

• what they have learned

• how they have learned

• what processes help them to learn.

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The PrimaryConnections 5Es teaching and learning model uses ongoing and embedded assessment to enhance teaching and learning.

Ongoing and embedded assessment

PHASE FOCUS

ENGAGEEngage students and elicit prior knowledge

Diagnostic assessment

EXPLOREProvide hands-on experience of the phenomenon

Formative assessment

EXPLAIN

Develop scientific explanations for observations and represent developing

conceptual understanding

Consider current scientific explanations

Formative assessment

ELABORATEExtend understanding to a new context or make connections to additional

concepts through a student-planned investigation

Summative assessment of the investigating outcomes

EVALUATEStudents re-represent their understanding and reflect on their learning

journey and teachers collect evidence about the achievement of outcomes

Summative assessment of the conceptual outcomes

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Types of assessment

Diagnostic

Formative

Summative

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‘More effort has to be spent in framing questions that are worth asking: that is, questions which explore issues that are critical to the development of children’s understanding.’

Questioning

Black, P. et al. (2003). Assessment for learning. UK, Open University Press.

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Effective questioning

View Part Eight of Questioning Minds DVD

• What are broad questions?

• What are narrow questions?

• What is the purpose of wait time?

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Questioning and the 5Es model

• ENGAGE: Broad questions that encourage students to discuss their ideas and

experiences

• EXPLORE: Questions that encourage students to discuss their ideas and to

express common experiences

• EXPLAIN: Focused questions that reinforce the explanations of the concepts

• ELABORATE: Questions that help students understand the concept in a new

situation

• EVALUATE: Questions that assess students’ understanding.

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Website assessment resources

www.science.org.au/primaryconnections/additional.htm

Website resources are available in PDF and WORD format:• Assessment checklists • Assessment rubrics • Science journal/work sample tags

You have a sample set to examine.

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In summary

• includes assessment practices for, of and as learning

• uses diagnostic, formative and summative assessment processes embedded in the PrimaryConnections 5Es teaching and learning model

• integrates appropriate questioning techniques in assessment processes

• embeds assessment processes in exemplary curriculum units.

PrimaryConnections: