Rethinking Assessments

Note to user: Remember your own personalized copies of documents, templates, and items to capture learning are shared within the Google Classroom. If you are not in the Classroom, then please reach out to Aaron Maurer(amaurer@mbaea.org) to learn how to get involved.

This module assumes you know and can do the following:

Competency

  • Develop and deliver valid and reliable assessments, projects, and assignments that meet standards-based criteria and assess learning progress by measuring student achievement of learning goals. (Aurora Institute)

Goals of Learning

Learning Outcomes

  1. Identify purpose of assessments.

  2. Create a quality assessment.

  3. Learn to let go of previous practices as you embrace the new.


What I will DO in this module:

  1. Watch a conversation with Becky Keene about rethinking assessment

  2. Reflect on some internal questions about your practice

  3. Engage in dialogue with other educators about the issues you are facing.

  4. Accept and complete the challenge!


Launch

Think Abouts


  • What is currently working in your approach to assessment in online and/or hybrid teaching?

  • What is currently NOT working in your approach to assessment in online and/or hybrid teaching?

Learn

Watch/Listen to the Recording

Featuring Becky Keene

Questions to Frame Your Thinking

  • How do we assess in virtual environments?

  • How/why does this need to be different from F2F practices?

  • AND.... how do these ideas also need to help rethink F2F assessment practices?

Questions for ensuring our assessment covers what we need

  • What is it that we truly want the students to know?

  • How can I get the students to show THAT without just regurgitating what they can copy online?

  • How can my assessment also allow me to build relations at the same time?

Question for your own personal growing journey

  • How does disruption innovation make you feel?

  • How does incremental innovation make you feel?

  • How are you handling either one or both?

  • Are you giving yourself permission?

  • How are you going to replace previous work with new ideas?(Let go!)

Video version

Audio Version

Reflect

If you listen to the podcast version, then you can try to the Walk and Talk method of learning!

Walk and Talk

For this task & for these new environments of teaching and learning we have the opportunity to avoid the typical "sit and get" approach to learning.

For this learning I am asking you to get up, grab some headphones and walk while you listen and reflect. The podcast is 40 minutesso you can break up into two sessions or knock it out in one session.

If you are in a school you could ask permission to walk the halls during your prep or before/after school.

This idea was adapted from this post

Capture ideas by voice typing into your app of choice, but I would recomend adding to a Google Doc or Google Keep

Template

  • Here is a template(if you are in the course please use the version in Google Classroom) to capture your ideas.

    • Feel free to capture ideas in a mode that best serves you. This is just one way to organize thoughts and perhaps a tool you can use with staff and students.


Talk About Your Ideas

Discussion Forum

  • Share your answers to the questions above in the watching of the video.

  • Share your examples, reflections, questions, and resources for this topic in the Google Group. This discussion is labeled Rethinking Assessment topic.

  • If you share any resources I will add to the section below.

  • Share your answers to the questions above in the watching of the video.

  • Share your examples, reflections, questions, and resources for this topic in the topic. This discussion is labeled Participation vs. Engagement

  • If you share any resources I will add to the section below.

Challenge

Challenge Submission

Provide a before and after of an assessment that you would like to reconfigure. You don't have to have it in perfect form as we will be exploring tools in future learning.

For now

  • Identify what is working

  • Identify what is not working

  • Identify what specifically you need to see the students produce for learning

  • List some potentional ideas you have

Submit in the Google Classroom by turning in a document/file of your choice for the assignment.

Note - We will explore tools that might be the answer you are looking for so hold tight and give permission to not have all the answers right now!

Resources & Further Learning

What to Do About Cheating on Assessments in Virtual Learning? - Peter DeWitt

Legalized 'Cheating'

(article is behind a Paywall, but this is the article by Becky Keene from 2006)

Backward Design Thinking