Transcript Alternative Fuels - Avondale Elementary School District #44

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ALTERNATIVE
FUEL
Topics to Cover:
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Purpose of Assessment
Three Types of Assessment
Qualities of Good Assessment
Alternative Strategies for
Assessment
“Assessment should always have
more to do with helping students
grow than with cataloging their
mistakes.” -Carol Tomlinson
Content Objectives
• TPW reflect on own perspectives
about assessment.
• TPW be introduced to several assessment
strategies and how to best implement them.
Language Objectives
• TPW discuss in small groups other assessment
strategies they have found to be useful.
• TPW summarize understanding by
completing / discussing a concept map.
DISCUSS WITH YOUR PARTNER
THIS QUESTION:
How do you define assessment?
Purpose of Assessment
•The purpose of assessment is to
guide instructional decisions about
what and how information is taught
and what and how students learn.
“Assessment is today’s means of
understanding how to modify
tomorrow’s instruction.”
-Carol Tomlinson
Reasons for Assessment
External Accountability:
• Government
• Parents
• Employers
• Accrediting Agencies
Internal Accountability:
• Mission
• Improve Student Learning,
Teaching, and Curriculum
Problems With Traditional Tests
 Little testing for higher levels of
cognitive ability
 No multiple chances of providing
feedback
 Few suggestions for
learning/performance improvement
 Did not match goals/objectives
 Expectations not clearly conveyed to
students
 Did not encourage cumulative learning
Higher Learning
• An active, interactive, self-aware
process that results in meaningful, longlasting changes – in knowledge,
understanding, skills, behaviors,
attitudes, beliefs, opinions, and/or
values.
Three Types of Assessment
• Preassessment
• Formative Assessment (Assess learning while learning)
• Summative Assessment
“Assessment and instruction work in
tandem and are woven together so
imperceptibly in successful
classrooms that they seem one
continuous whole.”
-Bertie Kingore
Qualities of Good Assessment
• Clear
• Complete
• Practical
• Diagnostic
• Aligned with the standards
• Valid and reliable
• Varied and ongoing
“We have a wide range of complex achievement
targets to assess. We need all the tools we have
at our disposal to do this job. Our challenge is to
find ways to use all these tools well and to use
them in balance.”
- Richard Stiggins
Questions We Need To Ask
Ourselves:
 Are my students learning what I
think I’m teaching?
 Did I tell students what I want them
to know and to be able to do?
 What constitutes acceptable (more than
acceptable) work?
 How will the instructor and student know that the
ability has been achieved; How will the student’s
performance be judged?
Alternative Strategies
for Assessment
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That’s “corn”y
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A “Corn”icopia of Ideas
SEE HANDOUT FROM:
Assessment: Timesaving
Procedures for Busy Teachers
by Bertie Kingore
Preassessment Strategies
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Teacher prepared pre-test
KWL Charts/Graphic organizers
Writing Prompts/Samples
End of Unit Tests
Reading or Math Interviews √
Exit cards / Chain notes
Student products and work samples √
Show of hands/EPR
(Every pupil response)
• Focused listing
• Teacher observation √
What skills would you need to go over with
this student? What could you skip?
Formative Assessment
• How to take the pretest one step further
• Learning reflections √
• Student request for conference √
• One sentence summary
• Most Difficult First Strategy
• Classroom opinion polling (misconception check)
• “Discussion” Assessment √
• Peer Review Request √
• Collaborative Goal Setting Plan √
• Teacher Checklist √
• Benchmarks
Feedback should tell students these three things:
• Where they are in the learning progression
• How their response differed from that
reflected in desired learning goal
• How they can move forward
“Formative assessment gathers and uses
information about students’ knowledge and
performance to close the gap between students’
current learning state and the desired state by
pedagogical actions”
(Shavelson 2006)
Summative Assessment
• Group assessment √
• Standards reflection for students √
• Student portfolios
• Repeat the math or reading interviews
• End of unit tests
• Standardized tests
• End of unit conference √
• Products chosen and designed by students
• Use student generated test questions
(The final exam is too late to find out there is a problem!)
Assessment Ideas for ESL
Students
• "Physical Demonstration." To express
academic concepts without speech,
students can point or use other gestures.
• "Pictorial Products." To elicit content
knowledge without requiring students to speak or
write, teachers can ask students to produce and
manipulate drawings, dioramas, models, graphs,
and charts.
DISCUSS WITH YOUR PARTNER
THIS QUESTION:
What other strategies for
assessment have you found to be
valuable in your classroom?
Template for Planning
Assessment
• Why am I assessing?
• What am I assessing?
• What assessment method should I use?
• How can I ensure quality in this assessment?
• How can I use the information from this assessment?
Final Thoughts:
• Prompt and frequent feedback is
the key to success!
• Students should be learning to self-assess,
make adjustments, and improve
performance.
“Assessment-Instruction Cycle”
Used to be instruct, instruct, instruct, then assess
Now assessment and instruction are interwoven
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