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NC Falcon (Formative Assessments). Purpose: • To involve students as active learners • To provide descriptive feedback • To identify and close learning gaps • To see progress immediately. NC Falcon (Formative Assessments). Definition :
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NC Falcon (Formative Assessments) Purpose: • To involve students as active learners • To provide descriptive feedback • To identify and close learning gaps • To see progress immediately
NC Falcon (Formative Assessments) • Definition: • Formative assessment is a process used by teachers and students during instruction that provides feedback to adjust ongoing teaching and learning to help students improve their achievements of intended instructional outcomes (CCSSO, 2008). • In other words, it is a process involving collecting evidence about how student learning is processing, requiring instructional adjustments, integrating into instruction and requiring frequent feedback throughout instruction.
NC Falcon (Formative Assessments) Teaching and learning essential standards: Three types of assessment: • Summative- EOC/VoCAT/Final Exams • Benchmark- Multiple Choice, Guided Response,Short Response, etc. • Formative- Questioning, ActivVotes, Role Play, Journal Entry, Debates, etc.
NC Falcon (Formative Assessments) Research based: • Learning gains have been ½ to 1 standard deviation on standardized test. Learning Targets: • Important to write clear learning targets
NC Falcon (Formative Assessments) Collecting and documenting evidence: Strategies • Mental notes • Symbolic indications on seating charts on notes • Matrices with names and learning tasks as rows and columns • Audio/ video recordings • “My progress’’ forms • Conference notes
NC Falcon (Formative Assessments) Analyzing data and descriptive feedback • Look at warm up activities, quizzes, benchmarks, checklist, etc. • Reinforce specific learning targets “your thinking shows…. Your writing shows me…… one thing you did really well …..”
NC Falcon (Formative Assessments) Evaluate vs. descriptive feedback • Evaluate- student believes ability alone leads to success. • Descriptive- student believes that effort leads to success.