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Fostering Conversations about Student Progress with the Assessment Wall

Fostering Conversations about Student Progress with the Assessment Wall. Roberta Buhle, Ed.D. Shari Frost, Ed. D. The Assessment Wall is….

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Fostering Conversations about Student Progress with the Assessment Wall

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  1. Fostering Conversations about Student Progress with the Assessment Wall Roberta Buhle, Ed.D. Shari Frost, Ed. D.

  2. The Assessment Wall is… …a visual representation of student progress in reading and/or writing. Each child is represented by a colored coded card. Colors are assigned by grade levels.

  3. Getting started • Select a baseline assessment to all students • Use an assessment that will provide a reading level (ISEL, DRA, F&P Benchmark) • Administer the assessment • Make a card for each student. Each grade level will get its own color • Post the cards in a non-public area in the school* • Set benchmarks for achievement

  4. Student Cards Each card contains the following information: • Student’s name • Reading level and date • Changes in level with the date • Special instructional issues that affect the student • ELL, SBPS, IEP, retained, etc.

  5. PPDC Assessment Wall Fall 2006

  6. Murphy School’s Assessment Wall 2006-2007

  7. Rio Grande School’sAssessment Wall, New Mexico

  8. Using the Assessment Wall • Hold grade level meetings in the room where the assessment wall is located • Designate one grade level meeting each month to talk focused on the assessment wall • Have teachers move their students’ cards as soon as they entered the room • Select a topic of discussion based on the current showing of the assessment wall

  9. Questions to Guide Assessment Wall Discussion • What do you notice? • What percentage of our students are achieving at expected levels? Above expected levels? Below expected levels? • What can we do to better meet the needs of our struggling students? Our students who are excelling? • Where were we last year?

  10. One example of graphic to promote deeper discussions:

  11. PPDC Assessment WallSeptember, 2006

  12. PPDC Assessment WallFebruary, 2007

  13. PPDC Assessment WallMay, 2007

  14. Benefits of the Assessment Wall • Encourages and supports formative assessment • Provides a framework for discussion about instruction, best practices, and grouping • Puts the focus on grade levels, rather than individual classrooms or students • Helps to identify trends • Generate awareness of students who are “falling through the cracks”

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