Measures Chapter 4

Element 2: Provide formative tasks that involve understanding and application

avoid tasks with yes/no answers, spend time in dialogue, information questions and discussions, term papers.

Benefits of formative assessment

1. helps teachers provide students equal access to educational opportunities. 2. helps teachers promote self governing skills for democratic participation through a strive for continuous. 3. is the key to helping students develop critical thinking skills and metacognitive skills by evaluating how their work can be improved.

Information on the Assignments knowledge/ understanding

1. information on the knowledge 2. information on the skills/strategies judgement of work and students no blame or praise of student characteristics. make sure students dont perceive the gap between where they are and where they need to be as too large otherwise will be demotivated.

6 key elements of formative assessment

1. make students aware of the LGs and evaluation standards 2. provide formative tasks that involve understanding and application 3. provide students with feedback to close any gaps 4. avoid grading formative assessment 5. offer students an opportunity to close any gaps 6. use formative assessment for enhancing instruction

Element 4: Avoid grading formative tasks

do not to be graded! fear of teachers since they dont think they will be as motivated to complete it. can use 1 or 2 points to offer for completion of assignment.

Accommodations for diverse learners

flexible, informal, take on different forms, UDL: multiple mean representation, expression and engagement, tasks should be relevant and specific to students. Anticipation guides help focus attention and learning

A teacher observations and questions (element 2):

informal observations and questions are the most frequently used teacher activities for formal assessment. can be used for individual, large or small group instruction. questions can be modified.

Feedforward

is a term that describes the future oriented aim of the information that the teacher proved in the feedback

formative assessment

it is the monitoring of the students progress during instruction that includes feedback and opportunities to improve. they are designed to help teachers get a picture of the students changing knowledge skill and strategies. Allows teachers to offer tailored feedback to students and to reflect on effectiveness of teaching.

Element 6: Use formative assessment for enhancing instruction

knowledge gained from monitoring students also provides useful information for improving the teachers instruction and being more responsive to student needs. reteach in a different manner, speed up, slow down.

c. Homework

needs to have clear purpose and that students understand as a result view the assignment as valuable. Individualized, differentiated homework that addresses specific needs of students, brief and to the point. Quantity over quality. consider cultural background. never use as a punishment.

Element 5: Offer students an opportunity to close any gaps

provides extensive feedback to students whereas summative provide a grade and even if there was feedback students dont often look at the feedback at that point they look for grade.

Element 1: Make students aware of the learning goals and evaluation standards

students need to know what they are aiming for when completing an assignment, important to supply them with the LGs and evaluation standards. Write down LGs on board, can include students to design the scoring guide, autonomy and confidentiality should be maintained.

B. other in class activities

teacher need to attempt to embed formative assessment tasks into instructional activities. Journals/notebooks (most common) i. quick write: a brief written response to a question or a probe ii. collaborative quizzes iii. self and peer assessment

scaffolding

temporary support that allows students to meet a challenge and increase understanding. as the LG is mastered the scaffolding can be removed.

Element 3: provide students with feedback to close any gaps

the kind of feedback that you supply students with is crucial. feedback should enable students so they know what to do next. one of the most powerful influences on student learning is when feedback is designed to help students close the gap between current desired performance. informs, reminds, questions and suggests to the student. no good job or what a mess.