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Please check, just in case…. Announcements. Hold on to your classroom-based assessment – don’t forget to turn it in before you leave. Terminology Treasure hunt due on October 29 – make sure you can access the readings on e-reserves way before then.
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Announcements • Hold on to your classroom-based assessment – don’t forget to turn it in before you leave. • Terminology Treasure hunt due on October 29 – make sure you can access the readings on e-reserves way before then. • Don’t delay on starting your standardized test review/critique. Please contact Brigid (brigidov@unm.edu) if you or your partner cannot come in on a Thursday 2-5, when she is scheduled in the Ed Diag office.
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Topic: Curriculum-based assessment/ measurement (overview) October 1, 2013
What do you want students to understand, know, and be able to do? (curriculum) How will you know they have accomplished this? (assessment) Develop a plan to get there (content, activities, teaching strategies). (instruction) Backward Design Process:
What is CBA? Curriculum-based assessment
Characteristics of CBA’s: • criterion-referenced, • teacher constructed, and • designed to reflect curriculum content. “CBA’s are intended for teacher use to determine students’ skills in various curricula taught in the classroom.” (Idol, Nevin, & Paolucci-Whitcomb, 1996, p. 1)
Another Definition of CBA: “Measurement procedures that use direct observation and recording of a student's performance in the local curriculum as a basis for gathering information to make instructional decisions.” from: http://www.cedu.niu.edu/pride/web21.htm
Common features of CBA’s: • “Students are assessed directly in materials being used in the classroom.” • “Measures are brief and can be completed quickly.” • “Procedures are designed for repeated measurement.” from: http://www.cedu.niu.edu/pride/web21.htm
How to develop a CBA: • Identify the sequence of your curriculum (e.g. 1 digit addition, 1 + 2 digit addition without carrying, 1 + 2 digit addition with carrying…). • Develop a bank of “test” items at each level. • Determine your criteria for progress from one level to another (e.g. % correct). • Decide how often you will test and how you will record scores.
NOTE! • CBA is most useful for evaluating student progress on instruction that has a clear sequence and progression of difficulty (e.g. spelling). • Students can be involved in assessing their own learning with CBA’s. • CBA’s do not have to be written tests. For example, you can use different coffee cans for different levels of items – students can challenge themselves to move to the next step by randomly selecting 10 questions.
CBA CBM
Quick Write: How have your ideas/knowledge about classroom-based assessment changed (if at all) since the beginning of the semester? Have you been using it any differently in your teaching/work setting? If so, how? If not, why not?
Pair up- share up work session Consider the classroom-based assessments you’ve worked on so far – how can you improve your assessment instruments? • Format • Objectiveness of criteria • Readability/audience
