differentiated assessment. “if we are finally to connect assessment to school improvement in...
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Differentiated Assessment
“If we are finally to connect assessment to school improvement in meaningful ways, we must come to see assessment through new eyes.”
-Richard J. Stiggens
For example, differentiated assessment is like juggling because it seems like having many balls in the air at once.
Synectics
Differentiated assessment is
like _____________________________
because
_____________________________.
• Essential Question 1: Why a differentiated classroom?
• Essential Question 2: How is differentiated assessment different from other assessments?
• Essential Question 3:
What does differentiated assessment look like?
Essential Questions
Why a differentiated classroom?
“Differentiated instruction is doing what’s fair for students.”
-Rick Wormeli
Essential Question 1
100% Engagement
A Perfect Learning Environment
• Student directed.
• No fear of failure.
• Success is attainable.
• Success is rewarded with more sophistication.
“Differentiation places particular emphasis on pre-assessment and formative assessment.
Essential Question 2
How is differentiated assessment different from other assessments?
-Carol Ann Thomlinson & Tonya R. Moon
Differentiated assessment cannot be separated from these
three vital components.
They are each part of the puzzle.
Purpose: “…to quickly optimize the match between learner need and teacher instruction”
-Carol Tomlinson & Tonya Moon
Learning Profile:
• Readiness.
• Learning style.
• Interest.
Differentiated Content and Pre-Assessment
What are some specific ways you use pre-assessment?
Terms:
1. Accommodations ___
2. Adaptation ___
3. Parallel Curriculum ___
4. Overlapping
Curriculum ___
Definitions:
a) The content remains the same, but different product outcomes are expected from each student.
b) The content remains the same, but the process by which the students engage with the content changes.
c) The content remains the same, but it is adjusted to fit the students’ various levels of cognitive development.
d) The content and goals (alternative standards) may be different for different students in the class, but there is still some overlap.
Match the term to the definition
1. The power of becoming skilled in self-assessment.
2. The importance of metacognition when monitoring their progress.
3. The motivation that can result from setting their own goals to progress in learning.“At the heart of our assessment dilemma are missed
opportunities to harness the energy of students as collaborators in the assessment process.” -John B. Bond
Differentiated Process and Self-Assessment
Assessment as arehearsal for learning?
Differentiated Product andPerformance and Choice
Assessment
• Performance Assessment
• Choice
• More than one opportunity for success
Thinking about the three aspects of a differentiated product; which aspect do you feel could optimize your
own assessment practice and why?
Differentiated Assessment as Part of
Content, Process and Product Assessment for Learning
Assessment as Learning
Assessment of Learning
• Enables teachers to use information about students’ knowledge, understanding and skills to inform their teaching.
• Involves students in the learning process where they monitor their own progress, ask questions and practice skills.
• Teachers use evidence of student learning to assess student achievement against learning goals and standards.
Differentiated assessment changes the
traditional model of student learning.Figure 3.1
Traditional Assessment Pyramid
Figure 3.2 Reconfigured Assessment Pyramid
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but to impact student learning we need to be deliberate about it and apply it in systematic and purposeful ways.
The Bottom Line
Differentiated assessment is just best practice that many of us are doing…
What does differentiated assessment look like?
“A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.”
Essential Question 3
-Maya Angelou
“If I were teaching you how to play golf, I would not determinewhether you had met my standards by giving you a multiple-choice test. I would put you out on the golf course to "construct your own responses" in the face of real-world challenges. Similarly, in school we are ultimately less interested in how much information students can acquire than how well they can use it.”
-Jon Mueller
Differentiated Assessments Across the Curriculum
Differentiated AssessmentsAcross the Curriculum: Math
Homework Menu
Note: Your partner must be an adult or a student your age or older. ©2009 by Abbie Fox, lovewhatyouteach.com
“Do we want to evaluate student problem-posing and problem-solving in mathematics? Experimental research in science? Speaking, listening, and facilitating a discussion? Doing document-based historical inquiry? Thoroughly revising a piece of imaginative writing until it "works" for the reader? Then let our assessment be built out of such exemplary intellectual challenges.”
©2009 Paul Forman http://www.mindmapinspiration.com
-Grant Wiggins
Mind-MapsEnglish, Science, History,
etc.
Health
Fine Arts: Music
Quantum Physics
Deeper Thinking
50+Tools for DifferentiatingInstruction Through Social
Media
Exit Slips and Socratic Seminars
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