Welcome to: The Power of Assessment in Guiding Student Learning

1. Welcome to: The Power of Assessment in Guiding Student Learning Warm up: In groups of 3 or 4, please use the blank chart paper to brainstorm these questions: What assessments do you use in your classroom? What are your purposes for these assessments? What do you do with the results from assessments? Be prepared to share your ideas with the group!

2. Learning Objectives • Content Objective: Teachers will explore a variety of types and purposes of assessment strategies. • Language Objective: Teachers will be able to explain how they can use assessment to identify and respond to student understanding throughout the instructional process.

4. Types and Purposes of Assessment • “We plan. We develop. We deliver. We assess and evaluate the results of the assessment. We revise, deliver the revised material, and assess and evaluate again. Perfection is always just out of reach; but continually striving for perfection contributes to keeping both our instruction fresh and our interest in teaching piqued." -E.S. Grassian

5. Visual Assessment Overview

6. Sequential Instructional Block Assessment Overview

7. InterimAssessments “Teachers and district personnel have created four interimassessments per grade level, each aligned to an instructional block. These are intended to be given as pre- and post-assessments. The purpose of these is to assess student progress toward mastery of the Utah Core Standards, determine when intervention is necessary, and inform instructional practice.”

8. Common Check for Understanding Strategies

9. Daily Check for Understanding Strategies

10. Exit Ticket with Red, Yellow, Green Light

11. Expressions Formative Assessment

12. 4-Square for Story Problems

13. Unit Quick Quiz

14. Performance Assessments • Rubrics… importance of having them prior to giving performance assess

15. Expressions Performance Assessment

16. Unit Test

17. Ongoing Check for Understanding Strategies

18. Student Data Sheets

19. Assessment Review

20. Assessment Analysis and Re-Teaching

21. Assessment in Action • Situation 1 • You are in the middle of teaching a lesson on properties of operations. It seems like some students are getting it and some aren’t. How can you check for understanding? How might you respond during the lesson after you check for understanding?

22. Assessment in Action • Situation 2 • You taught a lesson on fractions. It seemed like most students were engaged and getting the concept throughout the lesson as you checked for understanding. What type of assessments could you use at the end of the lesson to be sure exactly which students understand the objective for the day? How might you respond to the assessment?

23. Assessment in Action • Situation 3 • You just finished a unit on measurement. Throughout the unit your students seemed to grasp the concepts. You administered several formative assessments throughout the unit and met with small groups of students when they didn’t understand concepts. You gave the unit test and overall your students averaged a score of 80%. There were three questions on the assessment that less than 50% of the students answered correctly. There were also four students who scored less than 50% on the test. How might you respond to the assessment?

24. Reflection • Please complete the Exit Ticket for today’s session and be prepared to share. • Something new I learned about using assessment to identify student understanding is… • Something I might like to try as a way to respond to student understanding is… • A question I still have is…