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SCIENCE CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT AND SCHOOL REFORM ACCOUNTABILITY
School District of Palm Beach County
Utilizing Assessments for Descriptive Feedback
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Agenda
•Defining descriptive feedback
•Effective vs. ineffective feedback
•Analyzing descriptive feedback example
•Strategies for descriptive feedback
•Student tools
•Student sample activity
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Norms►Tend to personal needs
►Open your mind to new information
►Organize your thoughts by writing or drawing
►Listen respectfully to your colleagues
►Share your ideas
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Our Philosophy• Students must know
what the target is if they are expected to hit it.
• Students should know where they are in relationship to the target.
• Clear communication of goals should be on an individual and personal basis.
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SAL-P Individual Student ReportSAL-P Individual Student Report
Student NameID
Diagnostic PredictedLevel is based on a
student’s performance on the Fall and Winter
Diagnostic Tests.
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What should your FCAT/SSS Science Scale Score goal be?
A Scale Score at Level 3 or above.
Grade Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Level 5
5 100-272 273-322 323-376 377-416 417-500
8 100-269 270-324 325-386 387-431 432-500
11 100-278 279-323 324-379 380-424 425-500
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What is your definition of descriptive feedback?
PDCA Instructional Cycle
PLAN
ACT
DO
CHECK
• Data Disaggregation
• Calendar Development• Direct Instructional
Focus
• Tutorials
• Enrichment
• Assessment
• Maintenance
• Monitoring
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What is descriptive feedback?
Feedback…..• Focuses on providing
information to the student with the goal of improving what is being addressed.
• Allows the student to adjust and revise their thinking.
• It is conversational, less formal and is not judgmental or evaluative.
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“Here is how close you are to the knowledge or skills you are trying to develop and here’s what you need to do next.”
Feedback is a conversation……
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How can we provide assessment experiences for students that will start them on an “upward
spiral?”
Assessment FOR Learning has 3 major components:
• Accurate Information
• Descriptive Feedback
• Student Involvement
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Setting up for success
• Setting the purpose• Student friendly rubrics• Contrasting student samples• Focus on one skill vs. several skills• Be positive and specific• Provided in a timely manner
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Effective Descriptive Feedback
• Should be specific to how to improve performance
• Should be timely
• Should be based on data
• Should be relevant to the student and their goals
• Should be clear and concise
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Feedback CONTENT can be EFFECTIVE or INEFFECTIVE.
• Focus
• Comparison
• Function
• Valence (positive)
• Clarity
• Specificity
• Tone
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Ineffective Descriptive Feedback
• Irrelevant
• General
• Delayed
• Overwhelming
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Utilizing Descriptive Feedback in Science:
• Science notebooks
• Homework assignments
• Science Projects
• Reports
• Research Papers
• Performance Task Items
• Presentations
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Effective vs. Ineffective? you be the judge
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Descriptive Feedback Sample 1: “I love the chart that starts with trees and ends up at the recycling plant (instead of back at more trees).
It follows the relevant section of your report and illustrates the complete cycle so clearly! How did you come up with that idea? “
FocusComparisonFunctionValence (positive)ClaritySpecificityTone
Effective Descriptive Feedback
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Descriptive Feedback Sample 2:
“Your report was the shortest one in the class. You didn’t put enough in it. “
FocusComparisonFunctionValence (positive)ClaritySpecificityTone
Ineffective Descriptive Feedback
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Do your students look like this? OR
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Effective Descriptive Feedback addresses both cognitive and motivational factors.
• Cognitive factors:
Corrective feedback gives specific information students can use. It focuses on their strengths and ways to improve.
• Motivational factors:
Once the students feel they understand what to do and why, a sense of control is developed.
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So, how can we give descriptive feedback that is informational
as well as motivational?
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Descriptive Feedback Strategies
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Descriptive Feedback Strategy #1
Model both giving and using feedback:
•Use think-aloud activities so students see how revisions are made and why
•Create a classroom environment where feedback is expected and “mistakes” are recognized as opportunities for learning
•Provide feedback PRIOR to providing the grade
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Descriptive Feedback Strategy #2
Be clear about the learning target and the criteria for good work:• Use assignments with obvious value and
interest• Explain to the student why an assignment is
given; set a relevant purpose for the work• Make directions clear• Utilize student friendly rubrics• Have students develop their own rubrics or
translate yours into student friendly language if appropriate
• Design lessons that incorporate using the rubrics as students work
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Descriptive Feedback Strategy #3
Teach students self and peer assessment skills.
This will:
• Teach students where feedback comes from
• Increase students’ interest in feedback by helping them to ‘own’ it and track it themselves
• Answer students’ own questions
• Develop self-regulation skills, necessary for using any feedback
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Student ToolsStudents can use these tools to help determine and track their own data and feedback.
HOW CLOSE AM I TO MY TARGET?
SUBJ ECT:
Date: Date: Date:
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Data-Feedback-Strategy Method in the CLASSROOM / STUDENT
Name: Subject:
Date: Assessment:
Question f or Simple More I am good at:
# CORRECT Mistake Study
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15 To improve my skill(s), I plan to:
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23 I am not sure how to learn:
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Total # CORRECT: My Score/ Grade:
DFSM/C- 2a
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Descriptive FeedbackStrategy #4
Design lessons in which students use feedback on previous work to produce better work:
• Provide opportunities to redo assignments• Give new but similar assignments for the same
learning targets• Give opportunities for students to make the
connections between the feedback they received and the improvement of their work
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To keep in mind…….
“It is neither the presence nor amount of feedback that increases learning; it is the direct connection to achievement targets that makes the difference.”
(Atkin, Black, and Coffey 2001)
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How will you know if your feedback was effective?
• Your students learn; their work improves.
• Your students become more motivated; they believe they can learn, want to learn and take more control over their own learning.
• Your classroom becomes a place where feedback is valued and viewed as productive.
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Descriptive Feedback Starter Stems
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Let’s review some student work and provide feedback!
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More Science
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Math (critical thinking)
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Note:
Even though performance
task items will not be
assessed on the 2009-2010
FCAT, they are a critical
component of instruction.
They assist teachers in
understanding a student’s
ability to think critically
and they prepare students
for rigorous question items
.
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Activity:• Look at the
student sample.
• What type of corrective feedback would you give this student so that they can improve their response.
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The State’s Descriptive Feedback
Did your Descriptive feedback address these weaknesses?
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Remember….. You can’t fatten a pig by weighing it.
Use assessment data to improve weaknesses and provide descriptive feedback not just to collect information.
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In closing descriptive feedback:• Motivates students to improve their
performance
• Should be specific, timely and based on data
• Should be relevant to the student and their goals
• Should be clear
• Corrective feedback in not just something that you do, it is something that you model and a tone that you set in your classroom.
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Science Capacity Development TeamCristian Carranza, Science Manager
Shari [email protected]
William [email protected]
Crystal [email protected]
Adrian [email protected]
Annmarie [email protected]
Amie [email protected]
Christel [email protected]
Heather [email protected]
Terrence [email protected]
Robera [email protected]
Kirk [email protected]
Paul [email protected]
Andrea [email protected]