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What gets measured gets improved!

ASSESSING "FOR" LEARNING:  Learning is still happening, students have crements of achievement and learn how to do better next time.

Non-Traditional Products of Learning:

  • Pre-assessments

  • Short or extended response

  • Short quizzes

  • Directed questions

  • Entrance or exit cards

  • Self-Reflections

  • Journals

  • Observations

  • One-to-one conversations

  • Surveys

  • Quick Writes

  • Authentic feedback Teacher & Students

  • Self-assessment

  • Peer-assessment

  • Learning/Response Logs:

  • Data Keeping: Compare pre-assessment with post-assessment and looking at % of increase

  • Tracking individual student progress

  • Designing differentiated learning activites for flexible groups

  • Varied approaches to assessing student understanding

  • Varied instruction methods to meet diverse needs

  • Oral Check for Understanding 

  • Performance Task

  • Goal Setting

  • Questioning strategies

  • Student Record Keeping

 

Examples of Assessing "FOR" Learning

Presentation of Concepts:

Products produced with white board tools:
Great for Math, students can share and demostrate their understanding of a concept:

Ways to reflect on a topic:

Students can discuss with each other online or just reflect on their own with just teacher feedback.  This is a great way to get kids talking about math.  If they can verbalize their thoughts and communicate them they are true understanding.  This can also be a form of assessment demonstrating their growth.

 

Communication is vital to parents and students especially with math.

Tracking student work:

Tracked changes, comments from review by peers, teacher, personal reflection 

(Blog, Wikispaces, Website, Corkboard, EverNote, Edmodo, )

 

Other Ways to track student growth:

 

  • Clickers (turning Point, Socrative, Poll Everywhere)
     

  • Journal, Reflection and Recording: Evernote, Corkboard, blog, today's meet, primary wall, Edmodo, online white boards, 

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