Presentation Page
I was pleased to have been one of the inaugural fellows of the National Coalition of Girls' Schools (NCGS) Global Action Research Collaborative on Girls' Education. I was selected as only one of two representatives from the United States in a cohort of nine international teacher researchers. My research project about differentiated assessment is titled...
Show What You Know: How Girls' Academic Confidence Increases with Multiple and Differentiated Ways of Sharing What They Learned
Please click this link to watch a video presentation about this action research project.
Feel free to click these links to watch the video presentation and/or read the full research paper.
Show What You Know 6/14.docxReflections of the Show What You Know Assessments
How I Love This Sooo Much!
Why I Wasn't Nervous to Take A Science Test
Other Tests Stress Me Out - I Like Being Able To Record Myself
When You Get A Choice You're Not Nervous
I Felt Better Explaining It
Sometimes I Can't Think On Paper
This Was Challenging and I Like Challenging Stuff
If It's Not Multiple Choice It's Kind Of Hard
I Will Pick The One That Feels Better For Me To Work On
A Free Chance To Have The Best Way To Explain For You
It Makes Me Feel Comfortable How I Have A Lot Of Choices
It Is Hard To Choose Because You Have So Many Choices
Webpages for
Show What You Know
Click this link to take you to the Show What You Know Assessment Webpage. Use the drop down menu to access different grade level assessments.
Google Slides * PowerPoints * Song lyrics * Poems * Digital Posters (Canva) * Storyboards
* Ted Talk style presentations * Dioramas * Science labs * & more!
Examples of Flipgrid Responses to
Show What They Know
Examples of Label A Drawing
Examples of Student Confidence Surveys
Comparison Charts: Pre vs. Post Instructional Confidence Surveys
4th Grade: Weathering
3rd Grade: Moon
2nd Grade: Clouds
Focusing on Students' Learning Needs
Next Steps
*How to help students to make the best choices.
*How to prepare students to be ready to take differentiated assessments?
*Connecting differentiation and voice and choice to leadership skills?
*How is this work aligned with mastery-based grading?
*Does gender play a role in differentiated assessments?
*How students with this experience progress through school in later years.
*How differentiated assessments work in other subject areas?
*Are there similar results with middle and upper school students?
*Will results be the same in an all boys setting or in a coeducational school?
Additional Student Quotes
POST-INSTRUCTION CONFIDENCE
“I didn’t know a lot about weather [at first] but I learned so much and now I feel so confident.”
“[I am] confident because I made improvements.”
“I am very confident. I am surprised how much I learned.”
“I didn’t know [very] much [from] the start but now I know SO much!!!!”
“[Now] I know a lot about it & I am very confident.”
BEING GIVEN A CHOICE
“It makes me feel comfortable how I have a lot of choices.”
“I love doing the show what you know after every topic because it gives me a chance to have a bit of freedom out of a test because in every other subject we have to do [the same] test after each topic and I don't like it.”
“You can actually have multiple choices so it’s a little more challenging and I like challenging stuff.”
"I thought it was exciting to have your own choice because if you didn't want to do the thing that you had to do this was a way to express what you like to do and what works for you best."
"It feels fun because when you get to get a choice you're not nervous you just feel what you want to do."
Additional Parent Quotes
“I like using several different ways to share knowledge. I think it helps them process information in different ways and to build confidence in their skills.”
“I think it’s extremely important. Every child is different, having differentiation increases growth across all learning styles.”
“Always wonderful! Allows each girl the opportunity to express herself or seek and discover in ways that are best for her.”
“Great! All kids excel in different modes of assessment.”
“It allows them to discover their strengths and weaknesses and builds excitement when they complete projects in unique and creative ways. It also helps to keep them excited, engaged and fresh.”
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