Formative Assessment with

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Cristina Heffernan Chief Teacher Trainer, Co-Founder of ASSISTments•7 years as Math Teacher•8 Year as math coach and PD provider

•Leads Professional Development•Trains Trainers•Monitors Content•Runs Studies

Who is Cristina?

Shawn Towle8th Grade Teacher•Has

•Homework•Skill Building•CMP Games

Who is Shawn?

Dr. Neil HeffernanAssociate Professor of Computer Science•Co-Director, Learning Sciences & Technologies Graduate Program•Teach For America Teacher •Over 50 Peer-Reviewed Empirical Studies

•Writes Grants•Does Research•Invents innovations for ASSISTments

Who is Neil?

Formative assessment is a planned process in which assessment-elicited evidence of students’ status is used by teachers to adjust their ongoing instructional procedures or by students to adjust their current learning tactics. Pg 6

W. James Popham 2008

Formative assessment is:

•a planned process •assessment-elicited evidence of students’ status is•used by teachers to adjust their ongoing instructional procedures or•by students to adjust their current learning tactics.

Two views for understanding ASSISTments

Student Hat Teacher Hat

ACE

Log into ASSISTments

Homework Questions–

Evidence of students status

Put on your student hat:

Item Report Teachers

make adjustments

Item Report Students make

adjustments

Skill Builders

Put on your student hat:

Students work until they reach 3 right

in a row

Teachers respond to report–

make adjustments

Online Tutoring

Students make adjustments

Reflections

Put on your student hat:

Assign the reflection

Item Report – Used by teachers to make adjustments

Item Report – Used by teachers to comment to students

Student Item Report–Used by Students to make adjustments

Formative Assessments

Put on your student hat:

Formative Questions Evidence of students status

Item Report – Used by teachers to make adjustments

Online Tutoring

Students make adjustments

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