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Low Stakes Testing in the Mathematics Classroom
Colleen Young
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Contents
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Beginnings Assessment for Learning
What Makes Great Teaching?
Relationships
Retrieval Practice Survey Results Research & Further References
Colleen Young
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A little background…
Where has this
interest in testing /
retrieval practice
come from?
Beginnings
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Beginnings
At one time, an aural test was part of the GCSE assessment for AQA.
Review of standards in mathematics:
GCSE 1999–2004 and A level 1998–2004 March 2006 Ref: QCA/06/2348
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Beginnings Review of standards in mathematics:GCSE 1999–2004 and A level 1998–2004
In 1999 there was some variation across the
awarding bodies in terms of the use of
calculators.
OCR had one calculator paper and one non-
calculator paper at each tier, the only awarding
body to do so at this time.
AQA and CCEA had aural papers, designed to
test candidates’ mental calculations, and
calculators were not permitted in these.
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Beginnings
Review of standards in mathematics:
GCSE 1999–2004 and A level 1998–2004 March 2006 Ref: QCA/06/2348
By 2004, the use of calculators had become
much more consistent, with each awarding
body having one calculator and one non-
calculator written paper at each tier.
AQA and CCEA had dropped their aural papers.
More emphasis should be placed in
examinations on reasoning and problem-solving.
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This is the GCSE Maths Aural Test....
You may have nothing on your desk apart from a pen or pencil
and your answer sheet.
You may not use a calculator.
You will hear each question twice and then you will then have a
reasonable time in which to write your answer.
Write your answer in the space provided on the answer sheet.
If you need to jot anything down you should do so on your
answer sheet.
To answer some of the questions you will need to refer to a
diagram or equation on your answer sheet.
Aural Test is now starting
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Beginnings
Extract from a practice test:
Question 1 In a bag of sweets there are 5 chocolates and 6
toffees, if I pick a sweet at random what is the probability
that it is a chocolate?
2 What is the probability that in two successive tosses of
a coin you get a head each time?
For the next three questions refer to the triangle on your
answer sheet.
3 Angle A is a right angle, write down the value of tan C.
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Beginnings
Extract from a practice test:
Refer to the expression on your answer sheet.
6 Factorise the expression shown.
7 Multiply 5a2 by 3ab
Refer to the diagram on your answer sheet
8 The length of AB is 6cm. Estimate the area of ABCD.
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Beginnings
Extract from a practice test:
Refer to the diagram on your answer sheet.
12 Sketch the graph of y=x3.
Refer to the diagram on your answer sheet.
13 Starting from A and ending at D and not
going through any point twice, write down all
possible routes from A to D.
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Beginnings
Extract from a practice test:
Refer to the diagram on your answer sheet.
14 What is the equation of the straight line
shown?
Refer to the triangle on your answer sheet.
15 Calculate the length of the hypotenuse.
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Beginnings
Doing practice aural tests in class proved to be
a very useful way of revising any topic at all.
Something I have used regularly with all my
classes, long after they disappeared from the
GCSE examination!
Somewhere along the way they became known
to my students as ‘Mini tests’, these can be as
short as 5 minutes.
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Some definitionsAssessment for Learning
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Assessment for Learning
Assessment for learning, also known as formative assessment,
is about:
checking learning and giving
constructive feedback that informs
subsequent learning.
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Assessment for Learning
The Assessment Reform Group (ARG) defines it as:
“…the process of seeking and
interpreting evidence for use by
learners and their teachers to decide
where the learners are in their learning,
where they need to go, and how best to
get there.” (ARG, 2002).
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Assessment for Learning
Research (Hattie, 2002) shows that
giving learners feedback on their
learning errors and omissions, and
getting them to correct them or work
towards improving future work, is one
of the most significant methods of
improving their performance.
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Assessment for Learning
Constructive feedback also has a
profound influence on learners’
motivation and self-esteem
(Black and Wiliam, 1999).
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Is the Feedback You’re Giving Students Helping or Hindering?
If there’s a single principle teachers need
to digest about classroom feedback, it’s
this: The only thing that matters is what
students do with it. No matter how well
the feedback is designed, if students do
not use the feedback to move their own
learning forward, it’s a waste of time.
(Wiliam, 2014).
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Add to that concept a second related
principle: Feedback should be more work
for the student than it is for the
teacher. Teachers who internalize and
practice feedback based on these
precepts will be well on their way to
teaching that improves learning.
(Wiliam, 2014).
Is the Feedback You’re Giving Students Helping or Hindering?
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Assessment for Learning
Assessment and feedback is built in to
all successful teaching and learning
activities.
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What makes great
teaching?
Review of the
underpinning
research.
Robert Coe, Cesare
Aloisi, Steve Higgins
and Lee Elliot Major
October 2014
What Makes Great
Teaching
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What Makes Great Teaching?
1. (Pedagogical) content knowledge
As well as a strong understanding of
the material being taught, teachers
must also understand the ways
students think about the content, be
able to evaluate the thinking behind
students’ own methods, and identify
students’ common misconceptions.
What makes great teaching?Review of the underpinning research.Robert Coe, Cesare Aloisi, Steve Higgins and Lee Elliot Major October 2014
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What Makes Great Teaching?
2. Quality of instruction
Includes elements such as effective
questioning and use of assessment by
teachers. Specific practices, like reviewing
previous learning, providing model
responses for students, giving adequate
time for practice to embed skills securely
and progressively introducing new learning
(scaffolding) are also elements of high
quality instruction.
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What Makes Great Teaching?
Classroom climate (Moderate evidence
of impact on student outcomes)
“Covers quality of interactions between
teachers and students, and teacher
expectations.”
What makes great teaching?
Review of the underpinning research.
Robert Coe, Cesare Aloisi, Steve Higgins and Lee Elliot Major October 2014
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Assessment for Learning
However, the thing that really matters in
feedback is the relationship between
the student and the teacher.
When teachers know their students
well, they know when to push and when
to back off.
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Assessment for Learning
Moreover, if students don’t believe their
teachers know what they’re talking
about or don’t have the students’ best
interests at heart, they won’t invest the
time to process and put to work the
feedback teachers give them.
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Assessment for Learning
Ultimately, when you know your
students and your students trust you,
you can ignore all the “rules” of
feedback.
Without that relationship, all the
research in the world won’t matter.
(Wiliam, 1999).
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Student / Teacher
relationshipsRelationships
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Should be passionate and enthusiastic.
Patient.
Understanding.
Approachable.
Firm but kind.
Someone you can feel comfortable with.
Recognises achievements.
Genuinely caring about the students.
Someone who knows who you are.
Good Teachers...
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Someone who you know won’t judge you.
Expect the best out of your students, but
don’t be angry if they don’t always achieve it.
Check with students individually if they are
stuck.
They should be able to cater to all abilities.
Good Teachers...
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Lets you talk about the work in class.
Praises students.
Good Teachers...
More on good teachers…
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A teacher who provides the student with
the opportunity to see what they need to
revise. Regular tests and quizzes do this.
Tests that don’t have further impact on
levels / grades. Just there for you to know
what you don’t know.
What helps students learn?
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Low stakes tests are really good because
there is not much pressure and at the end
of them I can see how I’m doing and what
I need to improve on for later formal tests.
Going through and marking tests /
homework.
What helps students learn?
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What helps students learn?
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What helps students learn?
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Practice exam papers.
Mark schemes (train them in marking!)
Remember that we have a lot of subjects.
Post tests (test after a formal test with
questions the students found the most
difficult)
What helps students learn?
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Diagrams and other visual aids.
Online resources.
Worked examples. Good notes
Detailed explanations.
Regular checking of answers.
What helps students learn?
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The practice of
retrieving
information from
memory.
RetrievalPractice
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Students need to recall information and
the evidence suggests that testing is a
better way of doing this than simply
rereading material, a method often
favoured by students.
Mini-tests are low stakes ‘Self-checks’ ,a
learning tool, not something to be
stressed by.
Aristotle apparently wrote
“exercise in repeatedly recalling a thing
strengthens the memory.”
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Uses for Mini Tests
• For reviewing one or a small number of
topics
• For reviewing several topics
• As a revision tool for tests / exams
• To provide a revision list
• To check feedback from previous lesson
• The Mini test format can in fact be used
for more than just recall but also to help
students make links between topics.
Sophisticated questions requiring a deeper
understanding can be asked.
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Mini Tests
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Desmos
Graphing
Calculator
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Algebra Snippetts What’s the question? Discuss question paper terminology
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Examples – students work
Expect clear marking and corrections
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Examples – students work
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Examples – students work
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Examples – students work
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Examples – students work
15 is 25% of a number, what is that number?
Good mathematicians can go backwards.
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Examples – students work
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Yr 10–mini test to provide a revision list
Rather than just telling them they need
to revise bearings, ask a question.
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Examples – students work
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A student’s comment on her achievement’s this year:
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Student survey on
the use of Mini
Tests.
July 2016
SurveyResults
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Research in 100
words
Chris Moyse
Research& Further References
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Further References
Improving Students’ Learning With Effective
Learning Techniques: Promising Directions From
Cognitive and Educational Psychology
John Dunlosky, Katherine A. Rawson , Elizabeth J.
Marsh, Mitchell J. Nathan, and Daniel T. Willingham
What Works, What Doesn’t?
Highlighting is a Waste of Time
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Further References
Learning Scientists – June 2016
Learn How To Study Using Retrieval Practice
Professor Robert Coe – June 2016
What is worth reading for teachers interested in
research?
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Further References Belmont Teach
7 Recommendations to Improve Student Learning
based on Pashier et al, 2007 – Organising Instruction
& Study to Improve Student Learning
Professor Robert Coe – June 2016
What is worth reading for teachers interested in
research?
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Further References Henry L. Roediger III, Pooja K. Agarwal, Mark A.
McDaniel, and Kathleen B. McDermott Washington
University in St. Louis, 2011
Test-Enhanced Learning in the Classroom: Long-
Term Improvements From Quizzing - 2011
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Further References “The phenomena reviewed in this chapter constitute
compelling evidence that an item's state in memory
is modified by its retrieval and, more importantly,
that the extent of such modification is a function of
the depth or level of the retrieval processes
involved.”
Retrieval as a Memory Modifier: an interpretation of
negative recency and related phenomena.
Robert A Bjork, 1975
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Further References This excellent piece by Tim Oates points out
that our children are not over tested. He
writes:
People say that we are the most assessed
school system in the world. This simply is
not true.
The sense of ‘most assessed’ derives not
from the amount of formal testing, but its
‘high stakes’ nature…
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Further References
Students often fail to distinguish
between a formal, required national test,
and a timed, ‘quiet’ test devised by the
school. To them, it’s all testing.
Tim Oates – Cambridge Assessment Blog 2016
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Colleen Young
https://twitter.com/ColleenYoung
Mathematics, Learning & Technology
Mathematics for Students
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Mathematics for Students Mathematics, Learning and Technology
Colleen Young