Good Morning

Please find your name stick and place it in the box.

On the stick, you’ll find your group number, telling you where to sit.

(It’s mostly by department, but some dept’s wre combined.)

Trans-Formative Assessment:

A planned process in which teachers or students

use assessment-based evidence to adjust what they’re currently doing.

-W.J. Popham

Old Skool Formative Assessments

• Pre-tests

• Homework based on what we did in class today, to be done tonight and checked in

class tomorrow.

• Section Reviews

• Quizzes

• Bell-ringer Activities

Planning is CrucialLearning Progressions organize instruction

and help to place and choose formative assessments.

LP’s are hypothetical and can be modified or adjusted at any time.

Subskill:Critical cognitive skill.

Body of enabling knowledge (BEK):

Facts and info students must understand or

memorize-W.J. Popham

The Skeleton of a Learning Progression:

Body of enabling

knowledge A

Body of enabling

knowledge B

Subskill

X

Learning Goal

Z

Lessons Needed:

2 4 3 9+ + =Assessments:Class

discussion

Q & A

Pencil and paper 10-item quiz

Whiteboard Activity

Pencil and paper Test

A Chemistry LP

Definitions of e-,

orbitals, and

valence e-

e- config.

Chart

Using chart

to constr

uctconfig.

TSWBAT write the electron

config for any

element.Lessons Needed:

2 2 4 8+ + =

A Literature LP

Definition and

design of an essay.

Writing

mechanics

Analysisof

original

essays

TSWBAT write a

first-class original essay

Lessons Needed:

2 4 4 10+ + =

An Expanded Lit. LP

Definition and

design of an essay.

Analysis

TSWBAT write a

first-class original essay

Lessons Needed:2 2 4 12+ + =

Punctuation

Capitalization

Syntax/Diction

2 2+ +

A Speech and Debate LP

Definitions of

necessary terms

and structur

e

Subtle

Infusion

TSWBAT Mitigate a Proactive Rebuttal

Lessons Needed:2 2 3 9+ + =

Analysis

Damage control

2+

Trans-Formative Assessment:

A planned process in which teachers or students use

assessment-based evidence to adjust what they’re currently doing.

-W.J. Popham

Classroom Formative

Assessments• All-student response

procedures

• Selected student response procedures

• Individual student response procedures.

All-student response F. A.s:

1. Quizzes/Section Reviews2. Word maps/Mind maps/concept

maps3. Whiteboard Activities4. Index card Activities

5. Traffic Signal Technique6. Class polls

7. Thumbs up/thumbs down

Selected-student response F. A.s:1. Item Sampling2. Human Bingo

3. Jesus Jeopardy4. Group presentations

5. Observations

Few student response F. A.’s:

1. Key questioning (popsicle sticks)

2. Toss the Tomato

Trans-Formative Assessment:

A planned process in which teachers or students use

assessment-based evidence to adjust what they’re currently doing.

-W.J. Popham

Adjustment Triggers:1.Set a trigger for individual-student

performance2.Set a trigger for total-

group performance

Once you’ve triggered adjustment, you

have two choices:1.More instruction2.Less instruction

More Instruction:1.Different approach2.More time with the

same approach

Give one, Get one• Have students write down three things they

learned today on separate index cards.

• They go around the room and share them with others and swap one with each new person.

• If it seems necessary, have them keep track of their original set on a sheet of paper and then

try to “get rid” of them for three new ones.

• They can mind map these, adding 4 more, as HW.