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Instruction and Assessment Overview – Part 2

Instruction and Assessment Overview – Part 2. Instruction & Assessment. Purposes Develop a deeper understanding of balanced assessment systems. Develop a deeper understanding of formative assessment as a characteristic of effective instruction.

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Instruction and Assessment Overview – Part 2

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  1. Instruction and Assessment Overview – Part 2

  2. Instruction & Assessment Purposes • Develop a deeper understanding of balanced assessment systems. • Develop a deeper understanding of formative assessment as a characteristic of effective instruction.

  3. Are teachers “teaching for understanding”? And… How do you know students are learning? Characteristics of Effective Instruction

  4. Deep Conceptual & Procedural Knowledge Teaching For Understanding with Balanced Assessment Practices

  5. Assessment Balanced Assessment System • Screening assessments • Diagnostic assessments • Formative assessment – assessment for learning • Summative assessments - assessment of learning • Classroom • Standardized

  6. Users and Uses of Assessment Purpose: Identify how different stakeholders use assessments. CAROUSEL Cheat Sheet Review the definitions of each assessment.

  7. Users and Uses of Assessment Purpose: Identify how different stakeholders use assessments. CAROUSEL BRAINSTORMING • Choose a recorder. • Write short responses to the questions on the sheet. • Write “not applicable” to any question where it would be the appropriate response. • Rotate your sheet within the same color table numbers--5 to 4, 4 to 3, 3 to 2, 2 to1 and 1 rotating to 5. • Repeat the process for each sheet by adding your team’s comments. • When you receive your original sheet again, check the user that is most dependent upon this form of assessment. • Compare the responses of current reality to the definitions and examples in the Cheat Sheet. Circle any misused or misunderstood assessments.

  8. Which stakeholder group currently makes the best use of assessment information? Teachers Students Administrators Parents Community

  9. Which part of a balanced assessment system do you think is used the least? Screening assessment Diagnostic assessment Formative assessment Summative assessment

  10. Deep Conceptual and Procedural Knowledge Formative Assessment Balanced Assessment System

  11. The Promise of Formative Assessment • It represents evidence-based IDM – or just good sense. • Effect sizes of 0.4 to 0.7 (Black & Wiliam, 1998) • No report of negative effects following an enhancement of formative practice • Helps lower achievers more than other students – reducing the gap • Effective instructional procedure • Conclusively, formative assessment does improve learning.

  12. Ferreting Out Formative Assessment TEACHERS-IN-ACTION VIGNETTES Individually read the vignettes and decide with a partner whether five teachers-in-action are using formative assessment practices.

  13. Deep Conceptual and Procedural Knowledge Formative Assessment

  14. A closer look at… the importance of effective high quality instructional practices as defined by the Iowa Core Curriculum. Components of Teaching for Understanding Coming to a theater near you…

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