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Formative assessment is a planned, ongoing process used by all students and teachers during learning and teaching to elicit and use evidence of student learning to improve student understanding of intended disciplinary learning outcomes and support students to become self-directed learners.
Effective use of the formative assessment process requires students and teachers to integrate and embed the following practices in a collaborative and respectful classroom environment:
Clarifying learning goals and success criteria within a broader progression of learning;
Eliciting and analyzing evidence of student thinking;
Engaging in self-assessment and peer feedback;
Providing actionable feedback;
Using evidence and feedback to move learning forward by adjusting learning strategies, goals, or next instructional steps.
1 - Self-Assessment
Assessment Tips:
Use various question types
Use media to support different learning styles
Adjust the timer to give students more time to think
Consider turning off points for questions if you’d like to remove the pressure of competition
Pause and discuss a question
2 - Peer Assessment
Provides a metacognitive process of learning in that both the students and the teachers are able to receive feedback. Students understand what they know and teachers understand what students know.
Assessment Tips:
Encourage constructive criticism
Encourage positive reinforcement of things done well
Encourage conversation around the topic
Provide accountable talk prompts to help guide the discussion. Example
3 - Goal Setting
Students become consciously aware of and intentional about their choices and set learning targets to achieve personal and academic success.
Assessment Tips:
Revisit regularly
Encourage students to share goals with others to aid in accountability
Digital Vision Boards - Example: https://app.edu.buncee.com/buncee/24B2C64259B444FA8C3D9618AF98683B
4 - Activating Prior Knowledge
Eliciting from students what they already know and building initial knowledge that they need in order to access upcoming content.
Each individual has a wealth of knowledge and experience
Informed me as the facilitator of your prior knowledge
Recalls your prior knowledge, so you are open to new learning
Build relationships and the comfort to share
Assessment Tips:
Jamboard
KWL Charts
Brainstorming
Graphic Organizers
Flippity
Connecto
Quiz Show
Matching Game
5 - Transfer Learning
Taking content-based knowledge from one discipline and applying it to different problems, evaluating multiple situations, and learning how to take what is already known and seeing where it may be helpful in real-world situations.
Assessment Tips:
Use various question types
Encourage collaboration (when applicable)
Ask students to show or explain their thinking to understand the transfer of learning
HyperDoc Example: https://hyperdocs.co/document/show/1270
WhitboardChat Edpuzzle Nearpod Peardeck HyperDocs Kami
6 - Feedback
Feedback is any response regarding a student’s performance or behavior (verbal, written or gestural). The purpose of feedback is to improve a student’s performance.
Assessment Tips:
Students can self-reflect on their learning as well as provide feedback to peers
Consider what you want students to provide feedback on
Your feedback to students should be just as important as their feedback to you
Example Padlet: https://padlet.com/cheryl_boes/formativeassessment
7 - Questioning
When students are provided consistent opportunities to develop and discuss complex questions, they’re empowered with knowledge, curiosity, and intellectual courage, therefore building their foundation of learning.
Assessment Tips:
Students can self-reflect on their learning as well as provide response questions to peers
Connect questioning to transfer of knowledge
Provide a variety of questioning types to elicit different types of responses
Encourage students to ask you questions
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