Formative Assessment Cycle

By re-evaluating the purposes of assessment while keeping student identity and agency at the forefront of our thinking, we can improve learning for our students.  By looking for trends of assets amongst our students, we can improve teacher and student mindsets about learning.

Here I display the task used in a 6th grade class, some representative samples of student work, the trends analysis tool that I used for tracking assets in the understanding of students (II.c.vi, II.c.viii).  This task was chosen based on where students in the class were in their progression through 6th grade standards and an understanding of where they needed to progress before 7th and 8th grade units on 2D area (II.c.i).  After analyzing the results of the initial task using the trends analysis tool, I implemented an intervention tailored to the needs of individual students and the class (II.c.vii).  Also included is the write-up of my findings and results.