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Designing Common Formative
AssessmentsPresented by:
Elizabeth [email protected]
Betsey [email protected]
Where will we go today?1. What are Common Formative Assessments?
2. Why do we need Common Formative Assessments? What are the benefits to US as teachers? What are the benefits to our students?3. How do we CREATE Common Formative Assessments?
Source: Larry Ainsworth & Donald Viegut, Common Formative Assessments: How to Connect Standards-based Instruction and Assessment (Corwin Press, 2006).
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Ideas SortTrue of Common
Formative AssessmentsNOT True of Common
Formative Assessments
Key points…• Periodic, SHORT assessments• Collaboratively
designed• Pre- and post-• Should represent
power (essential) standards• Administered to ALL students in the grade level or course
Key points…• Combinations of
test-type questions including:
Selected-response and constructed-response• Results analyzed in DATA TEAMS/PLC’s to guide instruction
What are the benefits of CFAs?
• Regular feedback aligned with the most important standards allowing teachers to adjust instruction to meet the diverse needs of the students
• Ongoing collaboration with teachers in order to determine strategies that will lead to success for all students
“Team-developed common
formative assessments are more
efficient, more equitable, more
effective in monitoring and
improving student learning, can
improve and inform the practices of
individual teachers and teams, and
are essential to systematic
interventions.”
-Eaker, Dufour, &
Dufour, 2007
What are the benefits of CFAs?
• Consistency in expectations across the grade level• Agreed on expectations for different levels of proficiency• Deliberate alignment of classroom, school, district and state assessments to better prepare students for success on state assessments.
Why should we use CFAs?
“The true purpose of
assessment must be, first
and foremost, to inform
instructional decision
making.”
~ L. Ainsworth and D. Viegut, Common
Formative Assessments, 2006, p. 21
How do we create them?
“It is critical that all of the assessed standardsbe truly significant. From an instructionalperspective, it is better for tests to measure ahandful of powerful skills accurately than it isfor tests to do an inaccurate job of measuringmany skills.”
~ W. J. Popham, Test Better, Teach Better, 2003, p. 143
1. Pick an essential standard.
2. Unwrap the standard collaboratively. Divide
it into knowledge and skills.
3. Determine what type of questions you want to
use and how many.
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1st Directions
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2nd
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3rdDirections
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4th Directions
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4. Collaborate to create your questions and assessment.
5. Create a scoring guide or rubric.
6. Keep the testing environments consistent
when administering the assessment.
common
brief team
standards
aligned
consistent
periodic
assess
essential
One question I still have…
or
One action I plan to take…
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