C&I 222: Understanding Goals and Purposes: Assessment OF Learning and Assessment FOR

Learning

Today’s Class

• Define Formative and Summative Assessments

• Describe how assessments can be used formatively and summatively

• Describe different assessment methods

Types of Assessment

• FormativeAssessment that takes place during the

learning process. Teachers use the information to guide instruction.

• SummativeAssessments that takes place after the

learning to show what students have learned.

What’s the Difference?

Assessment OF Learning:(Summative)

Assessments that occur after the learning has taken place.

Discuss different SUMMATIVE assessments that can be used in the classroom and what you do with the

information you acquire.

What’s the Difference?

Assessment FOR Learning:(Formative)

Assessments that occur while learning is underway.

Discuss different FORMATIVE assessments that can be used

classroom and what you do with the information you acquire.

FORMATIVEAssessment FOR Learning

SUMMATIVEAssessment OF Learning

Reasons for Assessing

Promote increases in student achievement to help students meet more standards, support ongoing growth; improvement

Document individual or group achievement or mastery of standards; measure achievement at a point in time for the purposes of reporting;

Audience Students about themselves Others about students

Place in Time

A process during learning An event after the instruction has taken place

Primary Users

Students, Teachers, Parents Students, Teachers, Parents, Administrators, Program Planners, Policy Makers

Teacher’s Role

Inform students of learning outcomes, adjust instruction based on results, offer descriptive feedback

Administer the test accurately, use results to help students meet outcomes, interpret results for parents, build assessments for report card grading

Student’s Role

Self-Assess, contribute to setting goals, act on classroom assessment results to improve

Study material, take the test, strive for the highest possible score, avoid failure

Primary Motivator

Belief that success in learning is achievable

Grades

Assessment Sort

• Make a T-chart on a piece of paper and label one side “formative” and the other “summative”

• Work with a partner to sort the following assessments on your chart. Be prepared to defend your answer

*ACT *Predict-o-gram*Running Record *Concepts About Print *ISAT*End of the Chapter Test *Retell *Venn Diagram comparing 2 versions of a story *A published piece of writing *Story map*A speech *Diorama depicting a scene in a story

Assessment Methods

“Use multiple forms of assessment to gain a more comprehensive view of students’ literacy skills.”

What are some ways that you know of to find out what students know or can do?

4 types of Assessments• Selected Response• Extended Response• Personal Communication• Performance

Selected Response

• Matching• Multiple Choice• True/False• Short Answer• Fill-in-the-blank

Extended Response

• An extended written or oral response• Will show relationships among

concepts• Can be used to assess a student’s

reasoning or knowledge

Personal Communication

• Class Discussions• Journals• Student/Teacher Conferences• Peer Conferences

Caution: Teachers need to develop ways record information from PC because we don’t always remember.

Performance Assessment

• Anything that a student makes or does to show what they have learned.– Demonstrating a skill.– Creating a product.– Assess using a checklist or rubric

Matching Assessment Method and Learning Targets

• As a teacher, you will need to decide which assessment method is the best way to assess the different learning targets

• Target/Method Match– Look at the learning target– As a group discuss how a teacher would know if the

student has “hit the target”– What type of assessment would you use?

Example:

Reading Standard 2A: Students who can meet the standard can Comprehend a broad range of reading materials (5th grade)

PD: Identify/compare characters’ attributes and motives.

– How would a teacher know the students have “hit the target?

– What assessment would you use?

Which Assessment Method???• Use knowledge of letter-sound correspondences and high

frequency words to orally read age-appropriate material.• Summarize and retell text read or heard.• Compare two books by the same author.• Recognize 300 high frequency sight words.• Use appropriate capitalization.• Use available technology to design, produce, and present

compositions and multimedia works.• Use correct spelling of high frequency words.• Define unfamiliar vocabulary.• Identify genres of fiction and non-fiction.• Make connections from text to text, text to self, text to world.• Demonstrate appropriate use of the eight parts of speech.• Use figurative language. • Use end marks (e.g., period, question mark).

Kidwatching- Pair/Share

• Pick an idea from you Kidwatching reading and share it on Wiki Discussion.– How does this fit in with the article you read

this week– What ideas do you think are important to

include in your classroom?– What questions do you have?

Putting this all together

Assessment Philosophy paper (Due)

Use a graphic organizer to formulate some of your thoughts and insights gained from the last 3 weeks of readings and class discussion. Helpful resources:– Kidwatching, Ch. 1 & 2 and p. 24. Reflection

Questions– Reading Theory Materials posted on Blackboard– Keys to Quality Assessment

Next Week

• Wiki articles: Response to Intervention• Jot down questions regarding RtI• Assessment Philosophy paper due (What

do you need to remember about papers? See the syllabus for guidelines)