Directions

Read about Mind Frame 4.  After you have read about the mind frame, complete the activity at the bottom of the page in your Zombie Survival Guide.  

Key Question:  How am I using assessment information to progress student achievement and to help me plan for next teaching steps?

Guiding Questions: Why am I giving this assessment?  What knowledge will this assessment provide about my students?  How will this assessment help me to determine what my students need to do next?  What skills and strategies do I expect my students will use on this assessment? 

Teachers need feedback to determine the effects their teaching has had on each of their students.  Teachers need to view assessments as a chance for students to provide feedback to the teacher on the lessons, strategies, and activities they have been completing in the classroom.  Teachers need to see this feedback as a chance for them to grow as professionals and not as a judgement of what they did or did not do in the classroom. 

Teacher Assessment Feedback Reflection Questions 

• Who did you teach well and who not so well? 

• What did you teach well and what not so well? 

• Where are the gaps, where are the strengths, what was achieved and what still has to be achieved? 

• How do we develop a common conception of progress with the students and with all of the teachers in our school? 

Visible Learning: The Sequel

A Synthesis of Over 2,100 Meta-Analyses Relating to Achievement