Assessment
Assessment: Proven Practices To Keep In Mind
In this clip from the Meet Me In the Middle webinar originally held in early September, Lisa reviews proven practices for assessment in the hybrid and distance learning environments.
Find the full slide deck with embedded links HERE.
Encouraging Academic Integrity
Teaching and learning at a distance present a whole new set of challenges when it comes to academic integrity. In this video, Lisa reviews how teachers can discourage cheating and plagiarism by explicitly teaching students about academic honesty and by making some shifts in how assessments are designed and implemented. These tips can promote greater academic integrity in both the face to face and distance learning environments.
The parts can be viewed individually below.
Based on information found in Encouraging Academic Integrity Online
Part 1: Teaching Students About Academic Integrity
In part one, Lisa explores how teachers can create a learning environment that recognizes and values academic integrity by explicitly promoting it in their classes.
Part 2: Planning to Promote Academic Integrity
In part 2, Lisa offers suggestions on how teachers can design assessment plans in ways that discourage cheating and plagiarism.
Part 3: A Student Plagiarized, Now What?
In part 3, Lisa shares how teachers can respond to cases of academic dishonesty in their classrooms. The section on who to contact at the school level applies to SDLP teachers. Hybrid teachers should contact the student's home school vice principal.
Dealing With Missing Work
Empty spots in a gradebook can cause a lot of additional stress for teachers and students. In this video, Lisa reviews some proactive and reactive strategies for helping teachers to collect all of the assessment data they need to determine an accurate level of achievement.
Collecting and Managing Assessment Data
Gathering Reliable Evidence of Learning
What do the numbers in your gradebook really tell you about what your students know or are able to do? In this video, Lisa explores ways you can gather more reliable evidence of learning by weaving assessment into the learning process and focusing on performance tasks.
Curating Assessment Data in Ways that Tell the Story of Student Learning
How you organize your assessment data says a lot about what you value as an educator. In this video, Lisa shares some tips for curating your data in ways that more accurately tell the story of your students' learning.
Evaluation
Using a Body of Evidence to Determine a Report Card Grade
This holistic approach to determining a final grade frees teachers from the constraints of weighting, tallying, averaging, and calculating final grades and empowers them to let the body of assessment evidence tell a more accurate story of student achievement.
Strategies To Help Manage Feedback
Pick Just One
Are you drowning in student work that's waiting for feedback? Save time and give students agency over what you offer feedback on by using the Pick Just One strategy from Cult of Pedagogy "20 Ways to Cut Your Grading Time in Half."
Spot Check
Another strategy to save time assessing, the spot check strategy encourages teachers to be selective about the parts of a learning activity, or the group of students that are receiving feedback at a given time. Also found in Cult of Pedagogy's "20 Ways to Cut Your Grading Time in Half."
Assessment Tools
Single Point Rubrics
For a great targeted and time-saving alternative to traditional rubrics, consider giving Single Point Rubrics a try. Check out this Single Point Rubric Slide Deck for more details and links!
Assessment Alternatives to Tests and Exams
Blogs
Have you considered using blogs as a way for students to show their thinking and learning? Check out this resource for more details on how to use blogs in your classroom!
Micro-Theme
Sacrifice the word count without sacrificing the thinking by asking your students to compose micro-themes. A great option for any subject area! Find out more about them here.
Fact Sheet
Fact sheets are a classic assessment piece that may be worth dusting off and updating for the digital world. For more details check this resource out.
Outline/Organizer/Draft
Students often complete outlines, organizers, or drafts as a part of the process in creating a final product, but have you ever considered that those items could be the product? A great option for when communication is not the focus of the assessment.
One-Pager
On a single sheet of paper students use a mix of text and visuals to demonstrate their learning. For more tips on using a one-pager read A Simple Trick for Success with One-pagers
Concept Maps
A concept map is a visual representation of ideas. Watch to find how it can be used by students to demonstrate learning.
For more details check out this resource :
Poster Session
Poster sessions are a great way for students to communicate their thinking. Watch to find out more.
Exit Interviews
Exit interviews are a great way to gather/support a body evidence of student learning. Ideal length for these interviews can vary on the purpose, grade level, etc.
Grading for Equity
Getting Ready to Grade-less
In this video, physics teacher Ashley McCarl Palmer shares her first step toward creating a gradeless classroom: identifying key curricular and content skills. Watch as she shares her process for digging into the curriculum document to identify the pieces that matter most.