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Creating Common Creating Common AssessmentsAssessments
Creating Common Creating Common AssessmentsAssessments
Submitted by Lynee TourdotSubmitted by Lynee Tourdot
Why talk about assessment?
“You can enhance or destroy students’ desire to succeed in school more quickly and permanently through your use of assessment than with any other tools”
•Rick Stiggins, ETS
What makes a difference at the classroom level?
The teacher (assessment being a big part of what makes a good teacher)
• Milwaukee Reading Study• Several studies with same socioeconomic
population; one teacher 27% pass state test, another 72% (Marzano, 2003)
• 5 years of above-average teaching in a row could eliminate the achievement gap (Kain&Hanushek, in Haycock, 2005)
At your table, share an assessment experience that either happened to you or someone close to you (good or bad)
Objectives for Today• Overview of Assessments
– Formative, Summative, Common and Pre-Assessment
– Brief Intro to Marzano’s 6 Vocab Steps ELL, Low Readers (High
Readers)
• What is a Common Assessment?– How to create a Common Assessment
Quick Review of Assessment Terms:
• (Use some of the Marzano Strategies)• Pre-Assessment• Formative Assessment• Feedback• Summative Assessment• Common Assessment• Essential Learning
• Side Note– Marzano—6 Steps to Teaching Vocabulary
(so students will remember)• Provide description or explanation (not definition)• Have students restate in their own words• Have students construct a picture, symbol or
graphic representation of the term• Engage students in activities to help them add to
their knowledge of the terms• Involve students in games to help them
remember the terms.*
Pre-Assessments• How do I get into the mind of the
student to figure out what they already know about what I am going to teach?
Pre-AssessmentsHow do we use pre-assessments?• Given to all students• Used to adjust instruction based
on what students know.
Pre-AssessmentsExamples:• Small Group discussion based on a
question– “What do you think caused the Civil War?”
• A Pre-test– Try this problem: 2½+3¾
• A KWL– What do you Know?, Want to Know? (What
you learned comes later) • List everything you know about training
within your heart rate. What questions do you have about training within your heart rate?
Fill out Vocabulary Sheet
• Pre-Assessment– Description in your own words– Picture to remind you of the meaning
What are some Pre-Assessments that you use, or could use for the unit/topic you are working on?
Formative AssessmentsLike a Medical Checkup
Formative AssessmentsOther Names for Formative
Assessment
• Assessment FOR Learning
• Ongoing Assessments
Formative AssessmentsSome examples COULD BE: (if used for giving
feedback and adjusting instruction)• Guided practice, or homework**• exit slips• using a white board to assess understanding • quizzes • thumbs up, sideways or down • think alouds• feedback given for revision on assignments,
etc. • These do NOT have to be graded.
Formative AssessmentsHow are they used?• Adjust instruction • Address misconceptions or
misunderstandings• Give feedback
Effective Feedback and Monitoring Progress
• What is effective feedback?– Helps student to make improvements– Makes the student think– Is specific—rather than “good job”
“Practice does not make perfect unless it provides the opportunity for feedback” (Darling-Hammond, 2005)
Kinds of feedback: Israel-264 grade 6 students in 12 classes in 4 schools; analysis of 132 students at the top and bottom of each class-Same teaching, same aim, same teachers, same coursework-Three kinds of feedback: scores, comments, scores and comments
• Feedback Gain AttitudeScores none top-positive
bottom-negative
Comments 30% all—positive
What do you think happened for the students who were given BOTH scores and comments by the teacher?
Feedback Gain AttitudeScores none top-positive
bottom-negative
Comments 30% all—positive
What do you think happened for the students who were given both scores and comments by the teacher?
A. Gain: 30% Attitude: All positiveB. Gain: 30% Attitude: top—positive, bottom—negative C. Gain: 0% Attitude: All—positive D. Gain: 0% Attitude: top—positive, bottom—negative E. Something else.
ETS, 2005, from Butler (1988) British Journal of Educational Psychology, 58, 1-14
Formative AssessmentsWilliam (1998) found that focused efforts to improve
formative assessments produced learning gains greater than one-half standard deviation, which would be equivalent to raising the score of an average student from the 50th percentile (average) to the 85th percentile.
In other words, formative assessment, effectively implemented, can do as much or more to improve student achievement than any of the most powerful instructional interventions, intensive reading instruction, one-on-one tutoring, and the like.
(as cited in Darling-Hammond, 2005)
Fill out Vocabulary Sheet
• Formative Assessment– Description in your own words– Picture to remind you of the meaning
• Feedback– Description in your own words– Picture to remind you of the meaning
What are some Formative Assessments that you use, or could use for the unit/topic you are working on?
Summative Assessments:
Like anAutopsy
Summative Assessments:
Other Names for Summative Assessment
• Assessment OF Learning
• Final exam, final project, final assessment
Summative Assessments:
How are they used?• End of the unit/topic, or at an end point
within the unit or topic. • Feedback for the next time you teach it
—not usually going back to re-teach.• Make sure the assessment matches
your ESSENTIAL Learning– What do you really want kids to learn? – Book tests don’t often do this.
Summative Assessments
Types of Summative Assessment:• Final Written Exams/Tests (but they
don’t all have to be like this!)• Open-ended questions (see Kathie
Nunley’s book on Layered Curriculum)• Projects• Choice of activities or projects, etc.• Debate• Role-play a scenario (SEPUP Science)• Multi-genre research
Fill out Vocabulary Sheet
• Summative Assessment– Description in your own words– Picture to remind you of the meaning
What are some Summative Assessments that you use, or could use for the unit/topic you are working on?
Why do we need assessments to be
“common”?
Answer these questions in your group:
Pre-Assessment• What are common assessments?
• How are they different from giving the same test at the end of the unit (summative assessment)?
(Choose a person to report out from your group)
Common Common AssessmentsAssessments
Common Common AssessmentsAssessments
Common Assessments
Description• Can be formative or summative• Based on Essential Learning• Used for grade level or content teams
to look at student work, check for understanding, and share instructional strategies to improve student learning
• (So much more than the end of unit book test!)
Let’s try it…
Fill out Vocabulary Sheet
• Common Assessment– Description in your own words– Picture to remind you of the meaning
What is a Common Assessment that you use, or could use for the unit/topic you are working on?
So why are Common Assessments Important?
Choose One--What has the biggest impact on student achievement at a school-wide level? (Marzano Research)
1. Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum
2. High Expectations of Student Achievement
3. Effective Feedback and Monitoring Progress
The Answer:#1—Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum*
#2--High Expectations of Student Achievement AND
#2 Effective Feedback and Monitoring Progress*
*(Related to Common Assessments)
What is a Guaranteed Curriculum?
• Opportunity to Learn (Guaranteed to be taught)– Intended Curriculum (standards/curric.
maps)– Implemented Curriculum (actually taught)
What are some ways to make sure intended curriculum is taught?• Make sure essential learning is
clearly identified• Use the same assessments• Grade student work together to
clearly identify desired outcomes• Have frequent discussions about
instruction related to student results
What is a Viable Curriculum?
• Viable Curriculum– Identify the Essential Learning– ….if we taught all of the standards it
would take more than 22 years….
Essential Learning
• What do you really want students to know and be able to do?
• What would you want them to remember about the unit 5 years from now?
Example:Civil War: What is most essential to remember?
Dates, Times, Battles?or Causes of Conflict leading to the Civil War?
Within your group…• Think about the unit/topic that you
brought with you todayWithout discussion…• Write down the 3 most “essential
learnings” that should be taught in that unit/topic.
• Share the three priorities in your group
• Try to come to an agreement in your group on the three “essential learnings”
• Record them on the top of the Learning Plan Sheet
Fill out Vocabulary Sheet
• Essential Learning– Description in your own words– Picture to remind you of the meaning
What is the Essential Learning for the unit/topic you are working on?
Review of Vocabulary• Pick a partner at your table• One of you sit with your back to the
front
• Pre-Assessment• Feedback• Summative Assessment• Essential Learning• Common Assessment• Formative Assessment
Choose one of the Essential Learnings
(Summative Assessment)*VIDEO• Discuss in your group
You are all done teaching that essential learning….– What will it look like when a student understands that essential learning?– How will the essential learning be assessed?* Examples…
Try one together…Then in your group…
In what ways can I check for understanding along the way?• (Formative Assessment)• What are the natural check points?• How will I assess understanding of the
essential learning while teaching the unit?
• What type of assessment makes sense?• You will do other formative assessments
that are not Common Assessments
Steps to Creating a Common Assessment
Team Process:1. Determine the Essential Learning for the unit you
will be teaching2. Determine the BEST way to assess the Essential
Learning3. Determine the criterion for the assessment4. How will students be given the criterion? It
should be NO SECRET5. Use the Assessment to Refine, Rework, Revise
and Re-teach6. Meet as a group to assess student work
Other Thoughts…• Backward Design (Understanding
by Design)• Take Small Steps• Get students involved• Show SAMPLES!• Collaborate on Student
Assessments!