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Why Assess?
Why Assess?
Regular assessment is an essential component of quality instruction.
Students need to be assessed regularly for two main reasons.
1. Assessment should guide future instruction to effectively differentiate in meeting the needs of all students.
2. Helps students take ownership in the learning process by providing timely and specific feedback.
Revise thinking from the standard summative testing only to incorporating regular opportunities to make students thinking visible, such as the formative assessments listed on this website.
Anytime students thinking is visible it becomes a form of assessment that should be used in respect of the two reasons above.
Backward Design
Backward Design
Backwards design is the best method to create effective assessments and follows these steps:
1. Determine a goal.
a) Both short-term and long-term goals should be created toward the learning target.
2. Determine how you will know when students meet the goal.
a) This would be the assessment piece.
3. Devise a plan and methods to get students to reach those goals.
4. Use the data gathered from the assessment to determine further instruction and provide feedback to the students.
5. A summative assessment should be an evaluation of mastery of the long-term goal. This assessment should not be given until students have demonstrated, through assessment, mastery of the short term goals.
a) Teachers should not be caught off guard by the results of the summative assessment. The concepts students know and understand should be clear from the formative assessments given leading up to the summative assessment.
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