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Region 3 Assessment Binder

• Cheryl Bashutski
• Sun West School Division
• Mike Walter
• Regina Public Schools

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Purposes of the Session

• Become familiar with Assessment Strategies Binder
• Review common understandings of Assessment and
  Evaluation
• Reflect upon personal assessment beliefs
• Find a strategy to explore in your classroom

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Assessment Literacy

• Classroom Assessment/Evaluation
• Formative, Diagnostic
• Summative
• Evidence for Reporting
• To students
• To parents
• To community

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Classroom Assessment

• Rich array
• Observation
• Anecdotal
• Rubrics
• Portfolios
• Instructional focus
• Adaptated for individuals
• On-going, continuous

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Principles of Fair Assessment

• Tell them what youre going to test
• Test what you taught
• Test how you taught
• Test all you taught
• Give several opportunities to show that they know
  it
• Give them the results in a way they can
  understand
• Give parents results in a way they can understand

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Student Evaluation Resources

• Saskatchewan Learning (Evergreen Curriculum)
• CRESST
• McRel
• http//assessment.rbe.sk.ca
• Click on Documents
• Rubrics.com

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Greatest Impact on Student Achievement

• Youre going to see a list of 11 things
• With your colleague beside you, discuss which of
  these things has the greatest impact
• When you reach consensus, turn to another pair
  and see what they decided had the greatest impact
  on student achievement
• Come to consensus again.
• You have 3 minutes for each part

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Greatest Impact on Student Achievement

1. Use of audio-visual aids
2. Grading
3. Inquiry or discovery methods of teaching
4. Focussing on objectives
5. Using hands-on or manipulatives
6. Modifying the textbook and teacher instructional
   materials
7. Presentation mode of the teacher
8. Questioning strategies
9. Teacher direction
10. Testing
11. Wait time

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Greatest Impact on Student Achievement

• Use of audio-visual aids I
• Grading A
• Inquiry or discovery methods of teaching I
• Focussing on objectives C
• Using hands-on or manipulatives I
• Modifying the textbook and teacher I, C
• instructional materials
• Presentation mode of the teacher I
• Questioning strategies I
• Teacher direction I
• Testing A
• Wait time I

Curriculum
Instruction
Assessment
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Which of the four has the greatest impact on
student learning

• Behaviour
• Achievement
• Attendance
• Attitude

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Which of the four has the greatest impact on
student learning

• Behaviour
• Achievement
• Attendance
• Attitude

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Jigsaw Activity

• There are 10 sections to the Binder
• Therefore, we need people to divide into 10
  expert groups. Each will be assigned a section.
• In your Expert group, read your section and agree
  on the essential information others need to know
  is in that section.

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Structure of Each Section

• What is it?
• Why use it?
• Who benefits from it?
• When is it used?
• When is it NOT used?
• Tips on how to get started
• Adaptations and variations
• Practical, teacher made and used examples
• References for additional information

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Jigsaw, Part 2

• Form Sharing groups each Sharing group must have
  one member at least from each expert group.
• Share the information from our Expert group with
  your new Sharing group in 2 minutes or less.
• Each Sharing group member should come away
  understanding what is in the whole document.

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Sections in Binder

• Introduction 1
• The Adaptive Dimension and Assessment 5
• Anecdotal Records and Observation Techniques 19
• Rubrics and Exemplars 35
• Oral Assessment Strategies 55
• Effective Questioning 77
• Assessment Portfolios 83
• Tests and Quizzes 99
• Grading and Reporting 111
• Glossary and Appendices 117

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• Classroom assessment provides the everyday
  feedback that allows students to know what the
  goal is and to build towards that goal.
• Without high quality classroom assessment to
  provide the interim information to refine
  instruction, student achievement will never
  improve.

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The realms of assessment
The realms of assessment

• Assessment for Learning
• Assessment as Learning

• Assessment of Learning

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Thank you for your attendance. Have a great day.