“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 you have at your disposal.”Dr. Rick Stiggins

CP 2.3 The teacher plans assessments to measure student progress toward mastery of the GPS.

AL 1.3 The teacher uses a variety of summative assessment strategies to evaluate student status relative to mastery of the GPS.

Standards-Based Education

Assessment should… Compares students against the standards

rather than students against students. Makes possible the idea that all students

can receive an equal opportunity to learn.

Keys to Quality Classroom Assessment

1. Clear PurposeWhy assess?

What’s the purpose?Who will use the results?

2. Clear TargetsAssess what?

What are the learning targets?Are they clear?Are they good?

3. Good DesignAssess how?

What method?Sampled how?

Avoid bias--how?

4. Sound CommunicationCommunicate how?

How do we manage information?How do we report?

Accurate Assessment

Effectively Used

5. Student InvolvementStudents are users, too.

Students need to understand learning targets, too.Students can participate in the assessment process, too.

Students can track progress and communicate, too.

FeedbackDifferentiation

A Balanced Assessment System

Assessment of isSummative Norm-referenced,

standardized, teacher created

A snapshot

Essential Question What have the students

learned?

Assessment for isFormative Teacher-created A moving picture

Essential Questions How can we help

students learn more?

Characteristics of Assessment

Summative Assessment…of Learning

End of Learning Chapter, unit, EOCT

Periodic Limited Formats Students try to avoid

failure by memorization of facts and material

Formative Assessment…for learning Inform students,

teachers, and parents During learning,

continuous Many possible methods Set goals, use results to

improve and to differentiate

Finish the Statement

Summative assessment is like a _________________ because

_________________.

Formative assessment is like a _________________ because _________________.

Clear Targets

Help us… Recognize if the formative assessment adequately

covers and samples what we taught. Correctly identify what students know/don’t know, and

their level of achievement (summative). Plan the next steps in instruction. Give meaningful, descriptive feedback to students. Have students self-assess or set goals likely to help

them learn more.

Educators need to deliberately choose an assessment method that best fits the

standards being assessed.

Methods of Assessment Selected Response Extended Written Performance Personal Communications

Assessment handout with DOK levels

Four Types of Assessment

Summative Formative Diagnostic Common