WHAT DOES ASSESSMENT FOR LEARNING LOOK LIKE

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WHAT DOES ASSESSMENT FOR LEARNING LOOK LIKE?
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What formative assessment practices are you
familiar with?

• With a partner, list all you can think of that
  you have seen, done, or read about. Consider
  both teachers and students as decision-makers

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• A key premise is that for students to be able to
  improve, they must have the capacity to monitor
  the quality of their own work during actual
  production. This in turn requires that students
• Know what high quality work looks like
• Be able to objectively compare their work to the
  standard
• Have a store of tactics to make work better based
  on their observations
• --Royce Sadler, 1989

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Assessment for learning meets students
information needs

• Where am I going?
• Where am I now?
• How can I close the gap?

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Assessment for Learning Strategies

• Where am I going?
• Provide a clear statement of the learning target
• Use examples and models
• Where am I now?
• 3. Offer regular descriptive feedback
• 4. Teach students to self-assess and set goals
• How can I close the gap?
• 5. Design focused lessons
• 6. Teach students focused revision
• 7. Engage students in self-reflection let them
  keep track of and share their learning

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Activity Directions

• Assign one of the seven strategies to each person
  at your table.
• Appoint a table monitor to pay attention to time.
• Read the explanation of your assigned strategy.
• Be ready to explain the key idea of your strategy
  and how it addresses the AFL key question.
• Share your explanation with your table.
• Note ideas that are familiar and ideas that are
  new to you

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• Which of the ideas from the Seven Strategies are
  NOT NEW to you?
• Which ideas from the Seven Strategies are new to
  you?

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Assessment for Learning Strategies

• Where am I going?
• Provide a clear statement of the learning target
• Use examples and models
• Where am I now?
• 3. Offer regular descriptive feedback
• 4. Teach students to self-assess and set goals
• How can I close the gap?
• 5. Design focused lessons
• 6. Teach students focused revision
• 7. Engage students in self-reflection let them
  keep track of and share their learning

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New Idea Formative assessment can and should be
done BY STUDENTS as well as by teachers. The
key to improvement is how students and teachers
use assessment information.
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Assessment for LearningA GPS system for
students, too.
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ACCURACY
EFFECTIVE USE
PURPOSE
STUDENT INVOLVEMENT
TARGET