Classroom Assessment: Concepts and Applications Session 1 The Breadth of Classroom Assessment.
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The Big “Assessment” Picture first Keys to Quality Classroom Assessment Indicators of Sound Classroom Assessm
ent Practices
Objectives:
Teachers will understand the major difference between “Assessment for Learning” and “Assessment of Learning”.
Teachers will be introduced with different options to apply “Assessments for Learning” in the classroom.
What is meant by Assessment for and of Learning
Assessments of Learning are those assessments that happen after learning is supposed to have occurred to determine if it did.Summative Assessment (Graded)
Assessments for Learning are assessments that happen while learning is still underway.Formative Assessment (Not Graded)
Assessments for Learning Using assessments as a tool
Students need to:○ Know where they’re going○ Know where they are now○ Know how to close the gap
Know where they’re going Teacher to provide clear learning targets on
the board each day to reflect what is to be expected. Bloom’s TaxonsStudents will read chemistry word problems and
identify the “Known(s)” and “Unknown(s)” using the variables in the formula PV =nRT.
Students will restate the formula with substituted values.
Students will calculate the “Unknown” using algebra.
Know where they are now Teacher to provide some sort of assessment
question(s) at the end of each day (lesson) to check for understanding.Exit Tickets
○ Daily (half sheet, moodle quiz, Dyknow response)Practice Quizzes (Don’t call it review)
○ After each subsection or sectionPractice Tests (Don’t call it review)
○ Before each testPeer Review of written work
Know how to close the Gap Teacher to provide focused instruction
based on the feedback of assessment questions.Not all students may be in the same
location, so differentiating may occur here.Scheduled tutoring for those needing help.Provide Podcast or additional guided
problems.Might have to repeat a lesson