By Daisy Guo

CHOICE AND

DIFFERENTIATION IN

ASSESSMENT

The process of “ensuring that what a student learns,

how he or she learns it, and how the student

demonstrates what he or she has learned is a match

for that student’s readiness level, interests, and

preferred mode of learning” (Tomlinson, 2004)

THEORY BEHIND TODAY’S TOPIC

Teacher

can and

should

differen-

tiate

Content

Process

Product

According

to

students’

Readiness

Learning style

Interests

Middle

School

High

School

ELL Students 8% 23%

IEP Students 49% 34%

Overage Students 11% 18%

STHP(Students in temporary shelter) 22% 15%

Average ELA proficiency 1.89 2.17

Average Math proficiency 2.10 2.07

REALITY BEHIND TODAY’S TOPIC

CHALLENGE

Your work today

is to write a

conversation in

Chinese….

OR…

I am not doing it.

S$#%*,

F*&^$#...

Formative: daily, low stakes

Summative: end of a unit or semester.. High

stakes such as a performance task at the end

of a unit

This presentation will mix the above:

-reading

-writing

-listening

MIXED FORMATIVE AND SUMMATIVE

Differentiate the reading assessment into 3 steps.

1. Fill in the blank;

2. True or False

3. Answer the question (where other students will get

there directly)

See scanned word document.

READING

甲: (fill in blank): Please fill in the missing information

in the blank based on the reading.

1.上午十点半，他打电话给林朋，接电话的是__________。他说林朋去________买东西,下午一点半左右回来。

乙: (True or False) Please mark “x” for ture and “√” for

right

1. Lin Peng’s sister told Wang Li that he went shopping

in China town.

丙: (answer the question after reading)

Unfortunately Lin Peng became the suspect of a murder

case happened on the same day. You are Lin Peng’s

lawyer, can you please build a timeline of activates he

has done and the witness who can testify for his

activities.

Chinese word puzzle: cut a reading into pieces.

Teacher can even set different levels.

The lower level will be cut in less pieces and higher level will be cut into more pieces.

Students need to put the pieces together based on their English meaning.

They can work from an easy level to more difficult levels.

Depending on student’s level, some students will even have original text to help them put the reading together.

READING & WRITING

CHINESE READING PUZZLE

English Meaning:Xiao Ming’s family has

two bedroom, one study,

one living room and one

dining room. In addition,

there is also kitchen,

laundry room, toilet and

shower room. Living

room is all the way in

the front. Dinning room

is behind of living room.

Two bedroom is on the

right of living room.

Study is behind of

bedroom. Laundry, toilet

and shower room is all

the way at the back.

Graphic organizer

Sentence stem

Sentence with given options for each part

Sample writing in a similar task

Provide students choices

See scanned document

WRITING

Performance Task: you will need to write a skit “Devil wears Prada” in Chinese.

Two roles: one is the fashion devil boss; one is the fashion devil boss’s assistant.

Plot: The assistant needs to help organize a fashion show. She has selected few sets of clothes for the runway but she needs to seek the final approval from her boss. What would her boss say?

Vocabulary: Your skit has to contain sentence structures we learned from this unit:

-Matching clothes;

-Seeking opinion;

-Giving opinion;

-Asking for suggestion

-Giving suggestion

-Looking for missing things

*Setting and things that you need to put in the parentheses to explain the action can be in English

SAMPLE TASK

PROVIDE CHOICES

situation 1:

HSSIS is organizing an international trip. The president

of the student government wants to find out where

everyone has been already and where everyone wants

to go, as well as what languages students speak.

Situation 2:

A international company is hiring a salesperson. The

manager wants to find out the candidates travel

background and places he or she would like to go. The

manager also needs to find out the candidate’s

language skills

Role 1: president of the student government

Role 2: a regular student

Role 1: manager

Role 2: salesperson candidate

Situation 3: the FBI is investigate Boston terrorist suspect and they want to find out where he has been and where he wants to go and his language ski l ls.

FBI: 2014 你去过哪儿?

Terror suspect: 我哪儿都没去过 .

FBI: 真的吗？你去过美国Boston.

Terror suspect:(sigh…) 我去过 Boston

FBI: 你会说Arab语吗?

Terror suspect: 我不会说Arab语 .

FBI: 你会说英语吗?

Terror suspect: 我不会说英语 .

FBI: 你会说汉语吗?

Terror suspect: 我不会说汉语 .

FBI:(yell) You just said in Chinese!!!

FBI: 你想去哪儿？Terror suspect: 我哪儿都不想去 .

FBI: I think, 你想去heaven.

Terror suspect: (waiving head) 我想去洗手间 .

SAMPLE WRITING IN SIMILAR SITUATION