Thinking about assessment

Charles DershimerProfessional Certification @ HFA DearbornDirector of W.K. Kellogg - Woodrow Wilson

Teaching Fellows @ U-M Ann Arbor

Assessment

“knowledge, through evidence, about what has changed”

Goals

Use reflection activities to help you think about the role of assessment in a design thinking curriculum

Introduce you to the assessment tools developed for Foundations of Innovation

Provide you with a framework to help you design your own assessment tools

Δ = Changes

STEP 1 What are two things that have changed in you over these three days?

(a) Think to yourself “what is different…?”(b) Pair with someone from school(c) Share with group

Assessment Informs…

Students of their progress in developing knowledge and skills for empathy, mindsets, and design process (INSTRUCTIONAL)

Teachers about the success of the tasks for supporting learning (COURSE)

Administrators how well design thinking is helping the school achieve its goals (PROGRAMATIC)

Δ = Visualizing Changes

STEP 2 What is a good metaphor to describe “learning” about design thinking over these three days?

(a) Draw a before and after image representing learning(b) Organize with school team(c) Share themes with group

Assessment needs evidence…

Δ = Documenting Changes

STEP 3 What have you done over these three days that counts as observable evidence for “learning” about design thinking?

(a) Think about evidence of your own progress…(b) Find a partner from a different school team and discuss(c) Share examples with group

3 Difficulties with assessment

1. It is hard to describe the end point before we begin…

• Where do we want the students to end up? (Class Year Graduation?)

• How do deal with the tension of open ended solutions? (Backpack vs. Carry All)

3 Difficulties with assessment

1. It is hard to describe the end point before we begin…

2. It is hard to identify what develops…• The container vs. the apprentice• Articulation over time

3 Difficulties with assessment

1. It is hard to describe the end point before we begin…

2. It is hard to identify what develops…3. It is hard to document what is going on

inside based on what can be observed…• How do we grade students?• How do we show our stake holders the

value of this process?

Pause…

Assessment Overview

Design Challenges

Step 5

Step 6

Stop, Drop and Reflect &

Show

what you know

Step 1

Step 2

Step 3

Step 4

FOI Assessment Tools

• Goals & Skills Articulation – Grid & Rubric• Design Notebook & Portfolio - Checklist• Show What You Know Presentations – Rubric• Stop Drop and Reflect Writing – Rubric

end point skills…

what develops…

Programmatic Rubric

Process, Communication, Risk (Creative Confidence)

Show What You Know

Formative and Summative:• ✚ Exceeds Meets Δ Towards ✔ MissingCategories:• Tasks (degree of completion)• Design Thinking Goals (knowledge and skill

descriptions)• Artifact (process and component check)

Show What You Know

Creative Confidence

• What do we think it is?Examining Tim Brown’s view

Creative Confidence?

Creative Confidence? • Model it! Model creative confidence• Creative play needs ground rules a script, space and time- orientation and

transitions (prevent chaos and harm), sense of what is purposeful, play community

• Trust/security for play behaviors/knowing the rules– How is this related to social/racial status?– Undoing of what understanding of rules/social scripts– Need rules to break the old rules

• Trust for creativity- • Exploration – get to quantity caution: self editing / model becomes right

answer…• Role Play – “act it out” rules vs. stereotypes, timing, goal directed• Building- (hands on) Finished product vs. process • meeting the needs of differentiation in the classroom

How might we…

…assess creative confidence in the curriculum?