summer 2011 afl academy
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Dorie Hall, AFL CoordinatorEileen Hartwell, AFL Coach
Tammy Tomlinson, AFL Coach
June 15-16, 2011Chewning Middle School
Summer 2011 AFL Academy
Welcome
Purpose• To explore the research and rationale for a
formative assessment approach
• To examine the Assessment for Learning Framework
• To collaborate among and across school teams
Expected Outcomes• To deepen the understanding of formative assessment
and the AFL framework
• To understand the purpose and characteristics of Professional Learning Communities (PLCs)
• To establish AFL Champion Team roles and responsibilities
• To draft a 2011-2012 AFL Implementation Plan for Early Release Days
AFL Team Vision• To create an assessment-literate culture that is research and evidence based where staff, students, and parents feel informed, supported, empowered, and successful in every community, at every school and in every classroom.
AFL Team Mission• To enhance the understanding of AFL for ALL stakeholders in an effort to
answer questions, address concerns, and demystify myths
• To support schools with AFL implementation so each and every student will know what they are supposed to be learning, whether or not they are learning it, and what they can do if they are not
• To provide quality assessments teachers will look forward to giving because they are aligned, rigorous, just the right length, and really prepare students for EOGs/EOCs and beyond
• To provide useful and accurate local assessment results quick, fast, and in a hurry
NORMS• Begin and end on time• Turn off cell phones/laptops• Participate and collaborate• Be open-minded
Academy OverviewDay 1 Day 2
AM9-12
AFL Overview Team Roles/ Responsibilities,
Planning LUNCH
12-1PM1-4
Effective PLCs Team Planning
Team Materials• Table Tent • Team Response Cards • White Boards• Stickies
LET’S EXPLORE ASSESSMENT FOR
LEARNING
AFL CONTINUUM
AFL…What’s that? Certified AFL Expert
Heard of it, but need more info
Why the need for change?
We have reached a tipping point: We either change our assessment beliefs and act accordingly, or we
doom struggling learners to inevitable failure.
Rick Stiggins
Why AFL? • Strong research base supports effectiveness of
formative assessment• Ongoing process to close gap between
student’s current state and desired goals• Includes feedback to students
Assessment for Learning Defined• a formative assessment approach which uses
various methods to provide students, teachers, and parents with consistent evidence of student progress towards mastery of curriculum standards.
Strategic Plan: Goal I Academic Acceleration • I.6 DPS will implement an assessment for
learning model to improve student achievement outcomes as measured by school, district, and state assessments
Assessment for Learning“…focuses on day-to-day progress in learning as
students climb the curricular scaffolding leading up to state standards. It tells users if and when students are attaining the foundations of knowledge, the reasoning, the performance skills, and the product development capabilities that underpin the mastery of essential standards.”
Stiggins
Research Says…
The Best Value in Formative AssessmentStephen Chappuis and Jan Chappuis
Assessment of Learning
Assessment for Learning
REASON Check status of student learning Improve Learning
To Inform Others about students Students about themselves
Focus Standards Student Learning Targets
Example
High stakes external
assessments,Classroom tests used for grades
Assessments that diagnose needs or help students monitor improvement
Place in time
An event after learning A process during learning
Assessment for Learning StrategiesWhere am I going?
1. Provide a clear statement of the learning target2. Use examples and models
Where am I now?3. Offer regular descriptive feedback4. Teach students to self-assess and set goals
How can I close the gap?5. Design focused lessons on one learning target or aspect of
quality at a time.6. Teach students focused revision7. Engage students in self-reflection; let them keep track of
and share their learning
Assessment for LearningBENEFITS
• Data to modify instruction and learning• Common planning among content areas• Collaboration with colleagues
• Clear criteria for student achievement and quality instruction
• Ability to identify specific areas of weaknesses in student mastery
• Collective ownership of results
We assess for two reasons:
To gather evidence to inform instructionTo encourage students to learn
Assessment Manifesto: A Call for Balanced Assessment System
Rick Stiggins
Classroom Assessment
Common Assessments
Interim Assessments
(Formative assessment provides descriptive feedback)
Unit or Goal Tests
End-of-Grade Exams
End-of-Course Exams
(Summative assessment provides evaluative feedback)
Balanced Assessment System
Where We’ve Been…TRADITIONAL INSTRUCTION STANDARDS-BASED INSTRUCTION
Identify a topic/section in textbook Identify a standard/objective
Plan Instruction Create Assessment
Create Assessment/Give Ready-Made Assessment
Plan Instruction
Give Grade Give Assessment
Move On Analyze Data
Provide Feedback, Corrective Instruction/Enrichment
Move On
WHERE WE WERE: 2010-2011 FRAMEWORK
Where We Were(2010-2011)
Where We’re Headed (2011-2012)
AFL Framework Misconceptions and Myths
Develop a common understanding of AFL and alignment to Strategic
PlanCurriculum and
InstructionUnit/Textbook-Driven Standards-Based
Quarterly Local Assessments
Math SGAs: Tier I and Select Tier II Schools,
Benchmarks: district-wide
Math and Reading SGAs: Participation determined by DAP
model, CAs: district-wide
Professional Development
Lead by AFL Team and Curriculum Directors
Primarily School-based, Lead by AFL Champions and CIA2 Teams,
AFL Team and Curriculum Director Support, AFL “Bucket”
PLCs Some School and District Lead Sessions on Early
Release Days
School AFL Implementation on PLC Early Release Days and during
weekly PLCs
Formative assessment is a planned process in which assessment-elicited evidence of students' status is used by teachers to adjust their ongoing instructional procedures or by students to adjust their current learning tactics.
James Popham2008
WHERE WE’RE GOING: 2011-2012 AFL Framework
2011-2012 FRAMEWORK REVISIONS
• More Concise…5 Steps– Previous steps have been combined
• UNPACKING proceeds DESIGN ASSESSMENT
• CALIBRATE RIGOR and COMMUNICATE RESULTS have been added
“…when it's properly implemented, formative assessment will improve how well students learn.”
“…formative assessment constitutes the key cornerstone of clearheaded instructional thinking. Formative assessment represents evidence-based instructional decision making.”
TransFormative Assessment Popham, 2008
How will these changes affect DPS?Students
(ESL, AIG, EC, etc.)Teachers Administrators Parents
GALLERY WALK• Post your work– Designate a team spokesperson to summarize your ideas
• Peruse other teams’ work
Let’s Break!
“Any change, even a change for the better, is always
accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.”
Arnold Bennett
AFL GlossaryWhat are the 5 most essential concepts?
LET’S EXAMINE THE
FRAMEWORK
By carefully developing and applying power standards, leaders recognize that the question to be asked at the end of every year is not merely what teachers covered, but rather what students learned.
Reeves, Douglas, (2006). Power Standards: How Leaders Add Value to State and National Standards. Jossey –Bass (p. 240) .
Curriculum
Overview
Instruction and
Assessment Calendar
New Curriculum DocumentsPurpose Primary Audience
Curriculum Overview To provide a snapshot of the curriculum standards to be
taught each quarter throughout the school year
Administrators, District Support Personnel, Parents,
Community Members, Partnering Organizations
Instruction and Assessment Calendar
To provide a standards-based pacing document to align
curriculum, instruction, and assessment
Teachers, Coaches, Curriculum Directors,
Parents, Tutors
Frequently Asked Questions To address Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment
(CIA) questions/concerns
All Stakeholders
New Curriculum Documents…Implications and Considerations
Factors Changes/Adjustments/Improvements
Resources
Planning
Teaching
Assessing
Learning Targets and
Progressions
Clear academic standards or learning goals form an
essential structural foundation for a balanced
assessment system.Stiggins (2008)
Marzano reports that when students know
what they are supposed to be
learning student achievement
increases from 16 to 41 percentile points
(average of 21 percentile points).
(2007)
Assessment experts agree that numerous short assessments given
over time provide a better indication of a student’s learning than one or two large assessments given at the
middle and end of the grading period. (Marzano, Stiggins, Black, Wiliam, Pophan, and Reeves)
Local
Assessments
Common Formative Assessments
In a classroom that uses assessment to support learning, the divide between instruction and
assessment blurs. As teachers use information from student responses (answering & asking questions,
exit slips, group discussion, traffic light cards, etc. ), they can make instructional decisions to
address the understandings and misunderstandings that these assessments reveal.
Leahy, Lyon, Thompson, Wiliam
Minute by Minute Assessments
• Think more deeply about problems and situations
• Ask deeper, more frequent questions to ensure clarity
• Feel responsibility for their thoughts and ownership of their methods
• Learn ways to identify the places they need help
• Look less to the teacher for clues of how to solve problems NCTM, 2002
Student Ownership
and Engagement
• Simply telling students that their answer is right or wrong leads to a 3% loss in achievement
• Telling students the correct answer on items missed leads to a 9% gain in achievement
• Explaining to students why they missed an answer leads to a 20% gain in achievement
Lysakowski, Walberg, Kumar
Descriptive
Feedback
“Success is achieved by accumulating, summarizing, analyzing, and reporting
assessment results with maximum efficiency. The more data-based the instructional decisions… the more effective will be
instruction.”
Stiggins (2005)
Standards, Item
Analysis, Student
Responses
Looking at student work has the potential to expand teachers’ opportunity to learn, to cultivate a professional community that is both willing and able to inquire into practice, and to focus school-based teacher conversations directly on the improvement of teaching and learning.
(Phi Delta Kappan, November 2003)
Looking at
Student Work
“Formative assessments alone do little to improve student learning or teaching quality, what really counts
is what happens after the assessments.”
Thomas GuskeyCorrective
Instruction
Enrichment
Focused Revision
“…if students' assessment data indicate that current instruction isn't getting the job done, then almost any reasonable instructional adjustment has the potential to improve the situation, including changes in the way the teacher presents the material, represents its core ideas, articulates day-to-day objectives, groups students, and designs guided and independent practice activities. ”
Popham, 2008
Corrective InstructionEnrichment
Focused
Revision
True-False
TELLING STUDENTS THE CORRECT ANSWER TO A MISSED ITEM HELPS THEM MAKE THE MOST GAINS
TEACHERS SHOULD COLLABORATE ON HOW TO GET STUDENTS INVOLVED WITH THEIR OWN LEARNING
IF YOU AREN’T GOING TO DO ANYTHING WITH THE DATA, YOU MIGHT AS WELL NOT GIVE THE
ASSESSMENT!
FORMATIVE ASSESSMENTS SHOULD BE PLANNED AFTER A LESSON IS TAUGHT
STUDENTS GAIN THE MOST WHEN TEACHERS EXPLAIN MISCONCEPTIONS AND NEXT STEPS.
The effect of assessment for learning is that students keep learning and
remain confident that they can learn if they just keep trying. In
other words, students don’t give up in frustration or hopelessness.
Rick Stiggins
4 Box SynecticsSeason Pencil
Animal Car
Assessment for Learning is a lot like ______ because …....
LUNCH TIME!
SEE YOU BACK AT 1:00!
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