ASSESSMENT

Cindy Plantecoste and Stacy Stephens

Today’s Desired Outcome

To answer the question…

Where do we stand on Assessment?

Agenda

The Challenge of Assessment Rate Yourself as an Assessor Coded Reading Going Deeper: Summative vs. Formative Application to Your Unit

Individually

What is challenging about assessment?

Group Share

Record your thinking

Debrief Another

Using the chart from another table: Ask yourselves, where are you in agreement?

Rate Yourself

What does the research say? Coded reading

What you agree with‼ Something new and thought provokingṮ Something you want to speak more about

Discussion

Break

“Don’t fatten the cow by weighing it”

Going Deeper: Summative vs. Formative

The National Education Association report on student assessment states that all assessments in a balanced assessment system arise from the foundational understanding that the primary mission of schools is to maximize success for all students and not merely to rank students based on achievements. This is why the majority of assessment should be formative rather than summative.

Self-Assessment

Using the Unit Assessment on pg. 16 Examine your balance of Formative vs.

SummativeQuestions to consider: What is the % of formative vs. summative? Are you in “balance”? How would you rate the quality of these

assessments vis a vis standards and benchmarks?

Debrief at your table.

Indicators of Quality

Three levels to examine for quality Formative Performance Teachers who assess with formative

assessment

Putting your Assessments to the Test

Assessment Mix and Coherence

Old Bloom New Bloom

Consider Write/Do/Say

Performance Tasks

Applying all you Know

Using the coherence grid…apply to your selected unit

Be prepared to regroup with subject specific teams

An Example from HS French 3

Birds of a Feather

Share the grid of your unit

What observation can you make based on this process about your own work?

What questions do you have regarding our discussions today?

Citations

Quote: www.doe.virginia.gov/teaching/career_resources/prof.../overview.pdf

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