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MakingConnections

Focus on Assessment

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Workshop purpose

You are here to develop your knowledge and

understanding of the purpose and range of the embedded

assessment processes in the PrimaryConnections

Curriculum units.

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Workshop outline (90 minutes)

INTRO: Purpose, outline, outcomes(5 mins)

ENGAGE: Elicit ideas about the purposes of assessment(20 mins)

EXPLORE: Explore assessment through student and teacher perspectives(15 mins)

EXPLAIN: Explain the difference between types of assessment(25 mins) Explain the application of assessment processes in curriculum units

ELABORATE: Questioning techniques as an integral part of assessment(15 mins)

EVALUATE: Evaluate assessment behaviours (10 mins) Summarise, reflect and evaluate

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Outcomes

On completion of this module participants will understand and describe:

• the purposes of the three types of assessment embedded in PrimaryConnections

• the importance of student representations and questioning• the range of assessment processes appropriate to each of the 5Es phases

including student self-assessment• the assessment focuses and behaviours of teachers and students as they

progress through the 5Es phases• the use of the PrimaryConnections assessment rubrics

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ENGAGE

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Assessment ‘for’ learning

Gathering information about the gap between where the student is and needs to be.

Students learn best when they:• understand clearly what they are trying to learn and what is expected of them• are given feedback about the quality of their work• are given advice on how to make improvements• are fully involved in deciding what needs to be done next and who can help if needed.

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Assessment ‘of’ learning

Gathering and working with evidence to enable teachers and the wider assessment community to evaluate students’ progress.

Judgements about the extent and quality of student learning need to be:• based on sound criteria negotiated with and known to students• reliable and accurate.

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Assessment ‘as’ learning

Reflecting on evidence of learning and the processes of learning.

Reflecting on the learning process helps students focus on:• what they have learned• how they have learned• what processes help them to learn.

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EXPLORE

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Complete a Y chart from either a teacher orstudent perspective

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EXPLAIN

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The PrimaryConnections 5Es teaching and learning model uses ongoing and embedded assessment to enhance teaching and learning.

Ongoing and embedded assessment

PHASE FOCUS

ENGAGEEngage students and elicit prior knowledgeDiagnostic assessment

EXPLOREProvide hands-on experience of the phenomenonFormative assessment

EXPLAIN

Develop scientific explanations for observations and represent developing conceptual understandingConsider current scientific explanationsFormative assessment

ELABORATEExtend understanding to a new context or make connections to additional concepts through a student-planned investigationSummative assessment of the Science Inquiry Skills

EVALUATEStudents re-represent their understanding and reflect on their learning journey and teachers collect evidence about the achievement of outcomesSummative assessment of the Science Understanding

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Types of assessment

Diagnostic

Formative

Summative

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ELABORATE

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‘More effort has to be spent in framing questions that are worth asking: that is, questions which explore issues that are critical to the development of children’s understanding.’

Questioning

Black, P. et al. (2003). Assessment for learning. UK, Open University Press.

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Questioning and the 5Es model

ENGAGE: Broad questions that encourage students to discuss their ideas and

experiences

EXPLORE: Questions that encourage students to discuss their ideas and to

express common experiences

EXPLAIN: Focused questions that reinforce the explanations of the concepts

ELABORATE: Questions that help students understand the concept in a new

situation; Questions about claims, evidence and reasoning from science

investigations

EVALUATE: Questions that assess students’ understanding.

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Effective questioning

View Part Eight of Questioning Minds DVD

• What are broad questions?• What are narrow questions?• What is the purpose of wait time?

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Website assessment resources

www.science.primaryconnections.org.au

• Register as a member to access rubrics• Website resources are available• Assessment rubrics are fully aligned to the Science Inquiry

Skills of the Australian Curriculum:Science• Work samples provide guidance for assessing students’

work

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EVALUATE

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Assessment card sort

Explain to each other the appropriate behaviours for each of the assessment types

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In summary

• includes assessment practices for, of and as learning

• uses diagnostic, formative and summative assessment processes embedded in the PrimaryConnections 5Es teaching and learning model

• integrates appropriate questioning techniques in assessment processes

• embeds assessment processes in exemplary curriculum units.

PrimaryConnections: