Assessment

Assessment is important to understand the academic performance of each student. It is important to give students feedback, this way they can improve their skills and understanding.

Winter 2021 - Year 4

Initial Goal:

For this practicum, my goal is to reflect on assessment data with students, parents, and colleagues to support reasoned judgment about the evidence used to report the level of student understanding (A5). I want to provide and apply more assessment strategies throughout students learning, so I can discuss with my mentor teacher about learner's effectiveness. My goal is to be more hands-on during the reporting process and parent-teacher conferences in March.

Growth:

I was not able to be more hands-on during the reporting process like I wanted due to the unique situations of COVID-19. However, I was able to reflect on assessment data in different ways. On one of our PD days, I was able to be involved in a school literacy raw data workshop. From this workshop, I was able to learn about the protocol for examining data which will be beneficial for me to reflect on assessment data to support judgement about students' level of understanding. I also applied more assessment strategies. One strategy I liked in particular was recording students' conversations and thinking. I found it to be more effective than making anecdotal notes in the moment because I am able to go back and reflect on exactly what the student said, how much prompting they needed, etc.

Goal:

My future goal is to create multiple and varied assessment tools that align with outcomes where I have very clear assessment criteria (A2). I found that with some of my rubrics especially I was not completely clear on what I meant by the criteria which affected students' understanding and the validity of my assessment.

Fall 2019 - Year 3

Initial Goal:

My initial goal for this practicum was to be more involved in the assessment process by taking more anecdotal notes and involving the students more with the assessment process so they are better able to regulate their own learning.

Growth:

During this practicum, I had so many anecdotal notes. I took them for almost every lesson especially in Science when they were building. I felt that it was really beneficial because I did not have to try to recall what I learned from students because it was all documented. I feel that my biggest growth for this semester was including students in their assessment processes. They have been able to do self-assessments as well as checklists. I felt that students were more self-regulated towards their learning and relied less on teacher support for knowing if they were done or not.

Goals:

My goal in the future is to still engage students in more self-assessment to invite self-regulated learning as well as introduce more peer-assessment, so students can begin to take ownership of their own work (A4, A6). I also want to continue creating co-constructed rubrics and displaying checklists. Through the students' self-assessments I also realized how many of them do not truly understand the marking criteria, so this will be something for next time that I want to engage students in more to ensure they have that understanding.

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