Module 2: Formative Assessment
This module assumes you know and can do the following: (click to open drop-down)
Use assessment in your current practice
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Competency
Develop and deliver valid and reliable assessments, projects, and assignments that meet standards-based criteria and assess learning progress by measuring student achievement of learning goals. (Aurora Institute)
Learning Outcomes
Identify components of formative assessment.
Describe features of high-quality formative assessments.
Create formative assessment.
What I will DO in this module:
Describe formative assessment (what it is and what it is not).
Explain features of high-quality formative assessment.
Create a formative assessment relevant to your particular content/grade using the provided tool.
LEARNING PATHWAY
Start with the pre-assessment (below) to determine your path.
Use the Module Slide Deck in the Module Resources below to begin your learning pathway.
The learning tasks below are in a similar order to the order of the Module Slide Deck, and slide numbers are often referenced for your convenience.
Assessment and Feedback Module 2 Pre-Assessments.pdfLAUNCH
TALK ABOUT/THINK ABOUT
Ways in which you have used assessment in the past
How you share success criteria with students
How you determine the best way to assess student progress
LEARN
LEARN ABOUT
The difference between formative and summative assessment
5 “Key Strategies” for assessment, including feedback
Characteristics of feedback
TALK ABOUT/THINK ABOUT
The nature of feedback - how does feedback inform the improvement process?
DO
Review Formative Assessment Tools from various grades and content areas
Practice using the Formative Assessment Tool
REFLECT
TALK ABOUT
How will you ensure your future assessments are high quality?
How might you best collect evidence of student learning in a hybrid or virtual environment? How will you give feedback?
With colleagues, discuss evidence you will be required to collect in order to monitor learner needs in the classroom
SHARE
An assessment practice you will adopt for Unit 1 in the fall
Ways you will incorporate feedback in your assessment cycle (teacher, peer, or self-assessment)
What your instructional plan will need to reflect in order to make adjustments based on student performance gathered from formative assessments
MODULE RESOURCES
Formative Assessment Recording.mp4
Formative Assessment Module Slide Deck Handouts_3 per page_090820.pdfCHECKPOINT
Use the Checkpoint to help you check your thinking and doing with the learning targets in this module, determine whether you are ready to move on to the next module, and select “must do” or “may do” content of this module that is needed for additional clarification and/or practic
Self-assessment
Use a formative assessment tool for your first instructional unit--start with lesson 1--work with colleagues, if possible
Share your formative assessment lesson 1 ideas with a colleague to get feedback, if possible
Continue adding to the formative assessment tool throughout the unit of instruction
CELEBRATION OF LEARNING
Use the Celebration of Learning to synthesize key ideas gained, network with others inside and outside of your district, crowdsource knowledge and/or design ideas, and to extend your learning beyond this module.
MAY DO:
Work vertically with the same content area or within the standard (grade level) and compare formative and summative assessments
Celebrate your learning and a collaborative teacher team and co-create formative and summative assessments for your units together
Share your professional learning via your class FaceBook page or district FB page
Continue your learning on assessment by completing other modules
Making Progress!!!
