Formative Assessment

Assessment for Learning

This course is designed for BPS educators seeking to expand their formative assessment toolkit with a community of educators. In this course, designed using Dylan Wiliam’s five key strategies for effective formative assessment, participants will reflect on their own formative assessment practices and beliefs, learn about formative assessment principles, practice new learning in a collaborative environment with the feedback and support from peers, and make concrete implementation plans to use new learning in their own classrooms. Throughout the course, participants will practice in-the-moment formative assessment strategies, including sampling, show-call, and peer review. They will use tasks and student work from their own classrooms to apply their new learning.

Establishing Success Criteria

• Explore and seek to understand our individual and collective perceptions of the formative assessment practice “Success Criteria”
• Understand and apply Dylan Wiliam’s framework for sequential Formative Assessment Practices
• Explore and practice the creation, communication, and implementation of Success Criteria that build classroom-wide shared understanding of performance expectations

Classroom-Based Formative Assessment

• Apply Dylan Wiliam’s framework for sequential Formative Assessment Practices to determine where you are most interested in growing your own classroom-based formative assessment practice
• Learn and implement three classroom formative assessment practices that may be used to assess and respond to student learning in the moment