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Formative Assessment Module Kansas State Department of Education ASSESSMENT LITERACY PROJECT 1

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Formative Assessment Module. Kansas State Department of Education. ASSESSMENT LITERACY PROJECT. 1. Formative Assessment is Important!. Research shows formative most important assessment to student learning Educators need to understand the importance of formative assessments. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Formative Assessment Module

Kansas State Department of EducationASSESSMENT L ITERACY PROJECT 1

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Formative Assessment is Important!

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• Research shows formative most important assessment to student learning

• Educators need to understand the importance of formative assessments

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What is Formative Assessment?

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Paul Black, professor emeritus and educational research King’s College gives us this definition:

“ When the cook tastes the soup, that’s formative assessment; when the customer tastes the soup, that’s summative assessment.”

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What is Formative Assessment?

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The Council of Chief State School Officers provides the definition:

“ Formative Assessment is a process used by teachers and students during instruction that provides feedback to adjust ongoing teaching and learning to improve students’ achievements of intended instructional outcomes.”

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What is Formative Assessment?

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According to Dr. James Popham:

“ Formative Assessment is a planned process in which assessment-elicited evidence of students’ status is used by teachers to adjust their ongoing instructional procedures or by students to adjust their current learning tactics.”

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Formative Assessment is a Planned Process

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• Evokes evidence about student learning

• Provides feedback about learning to teachers and students

• Closes the gap between what the learner knows and desired goals

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Use of the Assessment

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• Results of Formative assessments are used to improve instruction and learning

• Results of Formative assessment are not used for making judgments about success or failure

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Title Comparisons

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• Formative assessment is used to improve instruction and learning

• Interim assessments are used to– Predict summative results– Warn of learning deficits– Identify achievement gaps

• Summative assessments are used to render final judgments

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Inside the Black Box: Raising Standards Through ClassroomAssessment

By Paul Black & Dylan Wiliam

Paul Black & Dylan Wiliam, “Inside the Black Box: Raising Standards Through Classroom Assessment,” Phi Delta Kappan Vol. 80 (2), October 1998, pp.139-148.

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Formative AssessmentsMake Moment – to - Moment Adjustments

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Classroom Based: Student Centered Process

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Teachers Need Time

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According to Black & William, teachers need:

• Time to reflect upon their assessment practices

• Benefit from observing and

• Consulting with other teachers about the changes they would like to make.

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Teachers Should Consider

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1. Testing new learning within about a week of first exposure

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Teachers Should Consider

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2. Do the assessments yield accurate, pertinent diagnostic information?

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Teachers Should Consider

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3. Is the diagnostic information being used to inform and adjust instruction for individual students?

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Activity One

1Review the work of Black and Wiliam by answering

the essential question: What is formal Assessment?

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What we want the student to know and be able to do

• Goals• Objectives• Proficiencies• Competencies

• Standards• Benchmarks• Curricular Aims

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Clarify Curricular Aims

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Alignment in SEDL's Working Systemically Model2004 PROGRESS REPORT TO SCHOOLS AND DISTRICTSSummary Report available online athttp://www.sedl.org/rel/resources/ws-report-summary04.pdf

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Clarify Curricular Aims

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Alignment in SEDL's Working Systemically Model2004 PROGRESS REPORT TO SCHOOLS AND DISTRICTSSummary Report available online athttp://www.sedl.org/rel/resources/ws-report-summary04.pdf

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Highest Level of

Performance Students Can

Achieve

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Kinds of Aims or Targets

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• Master Content Knowledge– Master means know and understand– Things to know outright– Know where to find it

• Use Knowledge to Reason and Solve Problems– Analysis– Synthesis– Comparison– Classification– Inference– Evaluation

• Demonstrate Performance Skills• Create products• Develop Attitudinal, Motivational Predispositions

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Students Must Understand What is to be Mastered

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Important whether student is preparing for a single lesson or a month long unit

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Curricular Aims

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• Describe how the curricular aim will be measured

• Provide examples of both very good and very poor assessment results

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Rubrics Clarify Performance Expectations

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A well informed rubric helps students understand what they are supposed to be learning

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Teachers Must Provide Students with the Building Blocks

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Formative Assessment are Not Used for Grades

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Students as Partners

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Stiggins tells us “that the greatest potential value of classroom assessment is realized when we open the process up and welcome students in as full partners”

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Activity Two

2Consider the

Student/Teacher Learning Partnership by Participating

in Activity Two

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How do we Plan Formative Assessment?

Begin by looking at the best recommended practices by experts such as Airasian, Fisher, Frey, Marzano, McTighe, Popham, Stiggins, Tomlinson, Wiggins, and others

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We Need to Begin with the End in Mind

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We Need to Begin with the End in Mind

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Checking for Understanding

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SHOULD:

• Align with enduring understandings

• Allow for differentiated instruction

• Focus on gap analysis

• Lead to precise teaching

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Questioning to Incorporate into Classroom Practice

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• Do I know what misconceptions or naïve assumptions my students possess?

• How do I know what they understand?

• What evidence will I accept for this understanding?

• How will I use their understandings to plan future instruction?

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Differentiating Instruction

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Checking for understanding presumes that students are able to demonstrate their understanding in different ways.

This demands not only that products are differentiated but also that our ways of analyzing them are differentiated.”

A model can be found on our next slide…

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Dr. Popham’s book Transformative Assessment

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From: Transformative Assessment (p. 141) by W. James Popham, 2008, Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development

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First Step:

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Identify when to administer a formative assessment

Consider what is important to know and do to reach enduring understanding of a curricular aim and that will help you determine when to use formative assessment.

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Second Step:

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Select the appropriate assessment to use

Our methods of assessment should be differentiated so that students can demonstrate their understanding in different ways.

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Select Proper Assessment Methods

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From: Student –Involved Assessment FOR Learning Fourth Edition (p. 64) Richard J. Stiggins, 2005, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education

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Eight Types of Assessment Practices

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1. Criteria & Goal Setting2. Teacher Observation3. Questioning4. Grading5. Self-Assessment6. Peer Assessment 7. Student record-keeping8. Formative Use of Summative Tests

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1. Criteria & Goal Setting

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In order to be successful:

• students need to understand and know the learning target/goal and the criteria for reaching it.

• Establishing and defining quality work together

• determining what should be included in criteria for success are all examples of this strategy.

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2. Teacher Observation

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Observations assist teachers in gathering evidence of student learning to inform instructional planning.

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3. Questioning

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Questioning strategies should:

• be embedded in lesson/unit planning

• Ask better questions allows an opportunity for deeper thinking

• provides teachers with significant insight into the degree and depth of understanding

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4. Teachers Written and Oral Evaluation

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• Should identify what has been done well

• What still needs improvement

• Give guidance on how to make that improvement.

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5. Self Assessment

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Self Assessment is essential to learning.

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6. Peer Assessment

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Peer assessment is valuable because students may accept criticisms of their work from one another that they would not take seriously if the remarks were offered by a teacher.

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7. Student Record Keeping

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Student Record Keeping helps students better understand their own learning as evidenced by their classroom work

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8. Formative Use of Summative Assessment

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Summative Assessment

Through active involvement in the testing process, students can see that they can be the beneficiaries rather than the victims of testing, because tests can help them improve their learning.

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Third Step:

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Decide what instructional adjustments should be made

• Teacher must determine a required level of individual student performance and a required level of total group performance

• Predetermined adjustment trigger must be established prior to collecting assessment evidence from students

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Fourth Step:

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Make adjustments in instruction

• This is the time for making decisions that lead to more precise and effective teaching. What is done at this step will be up to the individual teacher and will depend on that teachers’ level of experience and expertise.

• Popham advises us to “revisit the original learning progression created for the curricular aim or building block.

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Activity Three

3This Activity Answers the

Essential Question:How do we plan the

formative assessment process?

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The Process of Formative Assessment

Dr. Popham reemphasizes that “Formative assessment is more about teaching than it is about testing. At bottom, it is an instruction-enhancing process. It really is.”

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Five Potential Applications of Formative Assessment

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1. To make an immediate instructional adjustment.

2. To make near future instructional adjustment.

3. To make a last-chance instructional adjustment.

4. To make a learning tactic adjustment.

5. To promote classroom climate shift.

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Application 1: To make an immediate instructional adjustment

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Using immediate instructional adjustment, a teacher diagnoses, addresses, and corrects students’ misconceptions instead of letting those misconceptions remain for another day when they will probably be far more difficult to remedy.

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Application 2. To make near future instructional adjustment

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A teacher will need to use learning progressions to break down the subskills that are crucial to developing the overall learning goal and then through non-graded formative assessment exercises determining what needs to be done to ensure that students are mastering those crucial subskills before moving on.

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Application 3: Last Chance Instructional Adjustments

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If, near the end of an instructional sequence, a teacher wants to discover whether students have mastered the target curricular aim, that teacher may apply formative assessment for the purpose of last chance instructional adjustments.

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Application 4: Learning Tactic Adjustments

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Students use assessments evidence to monitor their own progress and decide whether they need to change the manner in which they’re attempting to learn.

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Application 5: Promoting a Classroom Climate Change

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The fifth and final application of the formative assessment process works to shift the atmosphere of a classroom through theses three significant changes:

1. A change in learning expectations.

2. A change in the locus of responsibility from teacher to students.

3. A change in the role of classroom assessment.

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Maximum Instructional Mileage

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According to Popham, “Promoting the three significant changes in classroom climate identified . . . requires a total, no-holds- barred effort.”

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Applications of Formative Assessment

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The Formative Assessment Process

Immediate Instructional Adjustments

Near-Future Instructional Adjustments

Last-Chance Instructional Adjustments

Students’ Learning Tactic Adjustments

Classroom Climate Shifts

From: Transformative Assessment in Action (p. 21) by W. James Popham, 2011, Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development

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Activity Four

4Take time to do the final

activity within this module

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