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Assessment and REporting

Assessment and REporting. Assessment and Reporting. Why do we assess students? What is the purpose?. Assessment is used to gather evidence to make a judgement about a students level of performance against a set of specified learning objectives

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Assessment and REporting

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  1. Assessment and REporting

  2. Assessment and Reporting • Why do we assess students? What is the purpose?

  3. Assessment is used to gather evidence to make a judgement about a students level of performance against a set of specified learning objectives • Assessment can be used to inform teachers of how they are going with the delivery of a particular concept

  4. Formative Assessment • Then purpose of formative assessment is to provide students with feedback about how they are going and how they can improve their performance • Formative assessment can happen throughout a topic or concept or at the end of a topic • Formative assessment informs teachers and students about progress

  5. Summative Assessment • Mastery tests have at least two major uses, namely: • they provide immediate feedback to teachers on how well students have mastered the knowledge and skills of the work currently being taught – information that can be used to provide individual remediation as needed, and • they provide feedback to parentsabout the progress of their children against the taught curriculum.

  6. Formative Feedack • The feedback that students receive is the key component of formative assessment for students • It should inform students of areas of weakness, and tools and strategies to build on these. It should identify strengths • There is some research to indicate that providing marks is counterproductive.

  7. Summative Assessment • Assessment tools such as: • Classroom-based topic tests (e.g. Yr4 Maths test on area & volume, Yr7 Science test on Cells, etc.) • VCE exams, • AMEB Music Exams, • Drivers License test. • Main Purpose (main question answered): • To test whether or not a student has mastered the skills as set out in the curriculum. • Desired outcome: • If students have learnt well they should get a 100% mark on the test

  8. Summative Testing as a Formative Tool • Systemic sponsored assessment tools such as: • NAPLAN, • On-Demand Adaptive Tests, • English Online Assessment (Government schools). • Other commercial tests such as: • PAT-R or TORCH (Reading) • PAT-Math and I Can Do Maths(Maths) • Main Purpose (main question answered): • To determine where a student falls along a continuum of development. • Desired outcome: • If the test difficulty has been chosen correctly for a student the student should get about 50% of the questions correct.

  9. Summative Assessment • Summative testing is essential to : • monitor the effectiveness of your teaching, and • monitor the progress of students along a developmental continuum. • But, research shows that summative tests do not lead to improved learning outcomes. As the saying goes: • “You don’t fatten a pig by weighing it” • So, although it is essential, keep summative testing to a minimum

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