Using Formative Assessment to Support Student Learning

Using Formative Assessment to Support Student Learning

How to Develop a Learning Target Determine your Standard or Objective. Identify the essential part(s) of each objective that you want your students to learn—these are your targets. Design a strong performance of understanding—these are thinking skills and applying new knowledge Write the learning targets in language students can understand. Students should be able to use I can statements.

Criteria for Success The criteria for success focuses on what students will be doing during the learning process. The criteria for success provides an understanding of what quality work should look like. The learning targets should be met after achieving the criteria for success.

Impact for Student Provides appropriate focus Criteria while engaged in the task. Criteria can provide a focus for self-assessment and self-monitoring. Criteria form the feedback criteria for peer evaluation. Helps students develop a sense of what is and what is not important.

Pyramid of Assessment

Categorize Assessments Work in groups of four. Each group will be given a Categorizing Assessment sheet and a Ziploc bag. Layout the strips that are in the Ziploc bag and decide three categories you can sort the strips into. Work as a group to sort the assessment strips into the three categories.

Assessment Activity Answers

Read Article Read article Formative and Summative Assessments in the Classroom. Select for your group a facilitator and reporter. Use the Four “A”s Text Protocol with your group to discuss the article. The reporter should be prepared to share your thoughts on Formative Assessment

Formative Assessment Techniques Work in your groups and review the Formative Assessment Techniques and Test Item Types. Your group is to list four additional Formative Assessment techniques or strategies. Be prepared to share your four strategies.

Collecting and Documenting Evidence Mental Notes Matrix Exit Ticket Student Think Aloud Warm-Up Homework/Classwork Journal Writing Interactive Notebooks

Formative Assessment Plan

Watch Two Video Clips VIDEO LINKS FOR COLLECTING AND DOCUMENTING DATA Elementary Example https://center.ncsu.edu/nc/mod/resource/view.php?id=12341 High School Example https://center.ncsu.edu/nc/mod/resource/view.php?id=12351

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Using Formative Assessment to Support Student Learning

Using Formative Assessment to Support Student Learning

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PARTNERS for Mathematics Learning Formative Assessment to Support Student Learning Module 6 K-2

Using Formative Assessment and Feedback to Improve Student Learning in Reading

Assessment for Learning — Using ExamSoft for Formative Assessment

Using Assessment to Improve Student Learning

Module 2: Using Pre-Assessment and Formative Assessment to Continually Assess Student Learning

Increasing Student Ownership Using Formative Assessment

Learning from Formative Assessment

Using Formative Assessment and Technology to Raise Student Achievement

Using assessment to enhance student learning

Formative Assessment: Assessment for Learning

Using Assessment to Improve Student Learning

The Use of Formative Feedback to Support Student Learning

Using Formative Assessment Resources to Promote Student Learning of ELA Instructional Standards

Formative Assessment / ‘assessment for learning ’

Improving Student Learning Through Continuous Formative Assessment

Using Formative Assessment to Improve Teaching and Learning

PARTNERS for Mathematics Learning Formative Assessment to Support Student Learning