the essentials of assessment
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the essentials of assessment
assessment~ the Latin root, assidere, means to sit beside.
opening thought
Clouds appearand bring to men a chance to
restfrom looking at the moon.
~ Basho
Assessment should be likea Japanese haiku poem, deep and simple.
(adapted from Damian Cooper’s Talk About Assessment)
the whole idea
Assess often, evaluate less.
assessmentassessment evaluationevaluation
terms to ideas
Gathering, recording, and analysing student work to help students, over time, attain a learning goal.
Assessment informs instruction.
It looks to the present, and to the future.
Assigning a value to student work to measure the learning they have acquired at the end of a time period.
Evaluation is for reporting.
It looks to the past.
assessment moves instructionFORWARD
teacher student assessment
coaches practices assessment
coaches practices assessment
Students can hit any target that they know about and that holds still for them.
~Rick Stiggins
If you don’t know where
you are going, all roads will
lead you to nowhere.
~ Henry Kissinger
foundation
Begin with the end in mind.
backwards design
What do I want my students to
learn?
How will my students get
there?
How do I know when my
students are there?
Where are my students now?
planning
practicing
assessing
evaluating&
reporting
Ongoing feedback
foundation
Seek variety and balance.
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Anne Davies, Making Classroom Assessment Work
Only if we expand and reformulate our view of what counts as human intellect will we be able
to devise more appropriate ways of addressing it and more effective ways of educating it.
~Howard Gardner
balance assessment strategies
SAY
debate oral presentationinterview
WRITE
play scriptbrochurereport
DO
muralartifactphoto essay
assessment strategy = how the student will demonstrate learning
balance assessment tools
anecdotal records
checklists rating scales
rubrics
assessment tool = how the teacher will assess learning
foundation
Give descriptive feedback and include the student in their
assessment.
The student knows more than the teacher about what and how he has learned – even if he knows
less about what was taught.
~ Peter Elbow
Research Connection
Involving students in assessment and increasing the amount of descriptive feedback, while decreasing the amount of evaluative feedback, increases student learning significantly. Students who usually achieve less show the largest gains.
(Black and William 1998)From Anne Davies,
Making Classroom Assessment Work
know your studentstrust yourself
assessment means to sit with
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