Module 3
According to the NRC in How People Learn - what to experts do when learning?
Experts build large, organized, interconnected knowledge structures and problem-solving strategies in a domain.
What are some of the apps that can be used for formative assessments that provide quick feedback? (per edutopia)
For quick feedback Socrative https://www.socrative.com/apps.html Formative https://goformative.com/
How does FAST SCASS delineate the process teachers may use to plan, implement, and refine formative strategies in their classrooms (9 steps)
1 Define goals of the instruction and place them along a learning progression 2 Define criteria for success 3 Select or create a range of appropriate assessment strategies to evoke evidence of learning 4 Share learning goals and criteria with students 5 Evoke evidence during instruction 6 Record evidence 7 Analyze and interpret evidence for individuals and the class to inform action. 8 Set new goals in collaboration with students 9 Evaluate and revise assessment strategies, as needed.
What are some components that should be included in order to adhere to principles of formative assessment design? (4)
1 Feedback that is provided during instruction 2 Collaboration between the teacher and the student 3 Basing the assessment on relevant standards 4 Challenging items that elicit understanding
What are 6 attributes proposed by FAST SCASS for effective formative assessment strategies?
1 Learning progressions 2 Learning goals 3 Embedded assessment 4 Specific feedback 5 Collaboration (Teacher and students work together to monitor learning and mod instruction) 6 Self and peer assessment
SimScientists is an example of a next-gen assessment utilizing simulation-based, curriculum-embedded science assessments that are intended to function in the following ways (6)
1 aligning with science system model progressions and science inquiry practices 2 presenting dynamic, interactive simulation environments that support active inquiry investigations 3 providing intelligent tutoring that gives immediate feedback contingent on an individual student's performance 4 offering graduated levels of coaching in real time 5 supporting self-assessment of explanations 6 providing diagnostic information to guide a teacher's assignment of off-line reflection and extension activities.
What are some of the technology tools available to assist teacher in creating and using formative assessment strategies? Tools that help them with strategies that represent cognitively principled assessment design.
1 websites for learning communities 2 alignment tools 3 collections of assessment tasks and items 4 online training on how to score assessments 5 software for creating and assembling assessments 6 technology-enhanced assessment resources 7 links to supplemental instructional resources 8 online communities or websites focus on assessment
The Diagnoser Project (Just an FYI) http://www.facetinnovations.com/daisy-public-website/fihome/resources/diagnoser.html Another: Science Assistments project microworlds to align with MA science standards.
By facet innovations They are instructional tools for teachers available at the Diagnoser website...
Online technology can aid with creating assessments by having a formative assessment database that aligns with unit and lesson goals to the state/Natl standards. However, such online/publisher provided alignment may not frame to the core ideas, but even when they do, such curriculum alignment should be screened for what?
Curriculum alignments should be screen to ensure they do not emphasize simple facts and procedures at the expense of challenging reasoning and problem solving.
What are some of the apps that can be used for formative assessments with videos? (per edutopia)
Edpuzzle password:teacherpass This allows you(the teacher) to take any video and add commentary, questions, multiple choice, True/False... Another way to use videos in assessment is to allow students to create videos with tools like: Let's Recap Allows students to respond via video *it is also be touted as a safer edchat ExplainEverything ($4.99/mo $25/yr) https://explaineverything.com/ Has a whiteboard FluencyTutor https://www.texthelp.com/en-us/products/fluencytutor/ good if you want your students to read to you - for ELL If students are learning to count they could watch a video and then afterwards record a video for your review w/o there being a line at the teachers desk (wait time) on things like seesaw https://app.seesaw.me/#/empty_user teacherpass Very interactive tool that has embedded lessons for elementary school children and will ask the students to do things like: Draw a picture of a woman that has changed the world. Then write about who this is, then record about a woman who has changed their lives and then have it added for review.
Evidence-centered assessment design involves linking what 3 things together?
It involves linking 1 the learning to be assessed 2 to a task model (i.e. tasks/ques that would elicit evidence of learning) 3 to an evidence model that specifies the types of student responses and scores to indicate proficiency
What are some of the apps that can be used for formative assessments that have live quiz games? (per edutopia)
Kahoot https://kahoot.com/ Quiziz https://quizizz.com/ Quizlet Live https://quizlet.com/live
NRC
National Research Council
What are some of the apps that can be used for formative assessments but your students do not have any devices (no computers, phones...) (per edutopia)
Plickers https://www.plickers.com/ This app allows you to use your phone and have printed QR code papers for each child and when they hold it up it will show their name and depending on the orientation what answer they used. They can hold up the unique card and provide a private answer in public. Great for assessments if no tech is avail. Another option is to use a tool that will quickly grade printed multiple choice tests using your phone with apps like: QuickKey https://get.quickkeyapp.com/ ZipGrade https://www.zipgrade.com/ GradeCam https://gradecam.com/
What are some of the apps that can be used for formative assessments for integrated presentation and quiz tools? (per edutopia)
SmartLab https://classlab.com/#/enter-code Make Kahoot like games http://www.coolcatteacher.com/game-based-learning-teaching-games-smart-lab-gbl/ Nearpod https://nearpod.com/ password:nearpodpass
What do cognitively principled assessment design help guid teachers to address regarding assessment targets?
They help to bring assessment targets beyond simple facts and focus on deeper learning of key concepts, reasoning, and problem solving.
What does the Framework for Science Foundation and the Next Generation Science Standard recommend for science educators?
To focus on fewer, more integrated, core disciplinary ideas. To provide deeper learning vs the shallow coverage of large datasets of traditional learning.
There are alignment tools that help provide training for aligning existing assessment tasks and items with standards (i.e. to Common Core). But, beyond this what should teacher try to plan for in addition to these unit level alignments?
While these tools assist with aligning embedded assessments to questions, tasks and items to the standards they do not help with building a progression of specific learning targets that build in complexity between lessons across the unit (currently). online plans to assist teacher with embedding aligned assessments: http://parcconline.org/non-summative-assessments and http://www.smarterbalanced.org/k-12-education/teachers/) the Performance Assessment Links in Science (PALS) and Performance Assessment Links in Math (PALM) relational databases, funded by the National Science Foundation, offer tools to support searching online databases of science or math performance assessments aligned with national and state standards or curriculum units
What are some places to get assessment templates?
ixl.com https://www.ixl.com/standards/washington/math The Global Learning Observations for a Better Environment (GLOBE) assessment templates the Formative Assessment Delivery System (FADS) https://parcc-assessment.org/practice-tests/ http://www.smarterbalanced.org/assessments/practice-and-training-tests/
