Presentation Topic Reshaping Assessment in Education

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Presentation TopicReshaping Assessment in
Education
GEDU 6154 05 Curriculum Issues in the 21st
Century
Humble Presenters Bruce Abriel Suzanne
Cookson-Wehbe
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Reshaping Assessment in Education Eisner
(pgs. 195-200)

• History of Educational Evaluation
• Enlightenment 17th and 18th centuries
• Psychological Laboratories 19th century
• Nature was orderly
• Rational Procedures
• Regularities Constructed
• Quantifying
• Goal was to create an objectively detached true
  description of the world as it really is.
• Early 20th century
• 1929 (Alpha and Beta tests)
• 1960s

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Reshaping Assessment in Education
Eisner (pgs. 195-200)

• Science of the Social
• To
• Descriptions of Human Life
• To
• Scientific Management
• To
• Technology of Testing
• To
• Enhancing Educational Practice
• To
• Ethnography

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Reshaping Assessment in Education

• Kindly commence the process of warning and
  warming your mental faculties to respond (like
  straight A FI students) to the following
  question
• What considerations are excluded in Evaluation
  that are included in Assessment?

Theres no doubt about it, Shes a Toughie!
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Well hello, I bet you teachers didnt know I
graduated top of my swamp in 1207 AD.
Ill stick around During the presentation
making sure your presenters steer away from
Medieval evaluation practices
Pardon me again, but Are we ready to continue
now?
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Reshaping Assessment in Education
RECENT PAST, CURRENT SCENE Eisner (pgs.
200, 201)

• During the 1960s a broader concept of
  educational evaluation was stimulated through
  numerous many curriculum reform movements.
• At the time, efforts to reform educational
  evaluation lost its momentum due to significant
  pressure from the American public and other
  interests outside education.
• Negative feedback from military, private sector
  employers, and increasingly low SAT scores,
  created concern with the state of American
  schools, student ability and questionable quality
  of teaching.
• As a remedy, government policy makers and the
  American public established MININMUM STANDARTS
  for all school districts and their schools to
  achieve.
• Tougher (SAT) Specific Achievement Tests were
  designed to bring about improvements, to monitor
  and measure and to provide informed reports of
  change in student learning ability within
  schools and school districts.

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Reshaping Assessment in Education
RECENT PAST, CURRENT SCENE Eisner (pgs.
200, 201)

• From this emerged the operative term
  ACCOUNTABILITY on the part of the school
  system, districts and schools.
• For nearly two decades Achievement TESTS remained
  the predominant method to determine, compare and
  communicate the progress / improvement of
  schools, students and teaching to the public and
  private sectors.
• Communication was maintained with military,
  private sector employers and public to determine
  the extent of progress achieved as a result of
  the newly mandated educational changes.
• Mid 1980s, the demand for better qualified
  students softened, while groups of educational
  stake holders realized tougher SAT tests and
  mandated assessment practices was not the answer
  to the problem of unprepared students and poor
  school results.
• Most reformers felt real problem was quality of
  school programming and poor pedagogical
  practice.
• The concerned groups suggested reporting
  practices should be more generous, more complex
  and more aligned with life experiences over
  individual performance tests. Thus, the new term
  ASSESSMENT symbolized the ambitions of the next
  decade.

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Ok enough of the chubby guy lets hear from Sue
again . . .
Be sure to keep an eye out for your own
pedagodfathers, I mean, Baords evaluation
policies . . . Up next
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some Functions of Assessment Eisner
(pgs. 201-202)

• Educational Temperature Taking collecting data
  not designed to report on students or school
  districts
• Gate Keeping assessments such as SAT
• Course Objectives Have Been Attained on going
  assessment
• Feedback to Teachers assessment to determine
  quality of a teachers professional practice
• Quality of the Program assessment of the type
  of activities, sequencing of events in the
  program, materials, etc.

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some Functions of Assessment Eisner (pgs.
201-202)

• According to the HRSB policy, Student Assessment
  and Evaluation Policy and Procedures,
• The 1 reason to assess is to determine how we
  are doing as a system, school, and classroom in
  order to improve student learning. That is to
  build on strengths and focus resources where
  needed to improve student achievement.
• Teachers will use this information to guide
  decision-making, student learning, and teaching
  practices. i.e Is the student meeting the
  outcomes? Provides descriptive feedback to
  inform students and parents about learning and to
  make decisions about what is next for the learner.

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some Functions of Assessment Eisner
(pgs. 201-202)

• Eisner sees assessment as a tool to look
  at The Program The Teacher The Student
• It is mainly used as for accountability
  purposes. (Identification)LITTLE TO NO
  Reference about using the information for student
  development.
• HRSB model appears to use non-judgemental
  language and the theory behind the policy sounds
  ideal and has positive implications for the role
  of assessment

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Reshaping Assessment in Education

• We have taken the liberty of creating small
  activity groups
• Ron, Sonja, Nancie, Debra (HS), and Jennifer
• Mark, Pat, Roy, and Debbie (ES)
• John, Adrian, Carolyn, and Stephanie

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But wait, we might be doing this a different way
. . .
Lets hear what the presenters are thinking about
this?
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Reshaping Assessment in Education

• Group ActivityIt is the end of October and your
  principal informs you that you will have a new
  ESL student from Mexico with little English
  language skills. Report cards are due in
  December, how are you going to evaluate and
  assess this childs abilities and skills?

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Features of the New Assessment
BEFORE discussing the invigorating details of
FONA, please lend us your minds for another brief
yet stimulating activity of cooperative
cognitive calisthenics.
we now require, 8 non-competitive teams, if that
is possible? No 3 buddy teams (i.e., John, Mark,
Ron). We would also ask our esteemed professor
Simpson to participate in this activity.
Due to time constraints, we have allotted but a
moment in time for this activity, so please begin
- upon reading the next slide.
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• Soo, your teams task is to complete each
  Assessment statement using the word bank sheets
  provided . YOU HAVE 6.85 MINUTES . . .

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Hello its me againYOU now HAVE 2 minutes Left
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Oh FONA, she was such a pretty little thing . .
. Ooops my bad . . Back to the presentation
Are we ready to check review share insights
on Eisners FONA
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Features of the New Assessment
Eisner includes the following features as
Appropriate for Creating Appraising New
Assessment Practices.
Eisner (pgs. 209 206)
Assessment tasks should provide students multiple
forms of representation to display their
learning. (pg. 209)
Assessment tasks should require students to
display a sensitivity to configurations or whole,
not simply discrete elements. (pg. 208)
Assessment tasks should have curricular relevance
but not be limited to the curriculum as taught.
(pg. 207)
Assessment tasks should make possible more than
one acceptable solution to a problem and more
than one acceptable answer to a question. (pg.
206) (content area consideration)
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Hello again, is everyone getting this stuff? Im
sure Bruce isnt doing a great job at elaborating
on the topics . . .
Dont tell him I said that it would crush him
You know he sports the gotee just to appear tough
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Features of the New Assessment
Eisner (pgs. 205 203)
Assessment tasks need not be limited to solo
performances. Many of the most important tasks we
undertake require group efforts. (pg. 205)
Assessment tasks should reflect the values of the
intellectual community from which the tasks are
derived. (pg. 204)
The tasks used to assessment students should
reveal how students go about solving a problem,
not only the solutions they have formulated. (pg.
204)
The tasks used to assess what students know and
can do need to reflect the tasks they will
encounter in the world outside of schools. not
merely those limited to the schools themselves.
(pg 203)
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Sounds like more fun to me . . . Lets get
started. then
Some have suggested that throughout the process
of educational inquiry observation and
interpretation without application is a form of
abortion.. Wasnt Me
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Reshaping Assessment in Education

• Personal Pedagogy Application Task Lest We
  Abort Our Learning Experience
• DONT BE AFRAID TO THINK

List 2 3 components, methods or ways you could
change (how you educate) to make your assessment
practices more informative, meaningful and
valuable when doing your job?
Most ImportantlyThank You for Your Attention and
Participation
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Education is a social process education is
growth education is not a preparation for life
but is life itself. John Dewey
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• Missing Features of New Assessment Activity
  (Answer Sheet)(FIY)
• Assessment tasks should provide students multiple
  forms of representation to display their
  learning. 1
• Assessment tasks should require students to
  display a sensitivity to configurations or whole,
  not simply discrete elements. 2
• Assessment tasks should have curricular relevance
  but not be limited to the curriculum as taught. 3
• Assessment tasks should make possible more than
  one acceptable solution to a problem and more
  than one acceptable answer to a question. 4
• Assessment tasks need not be limited to solo
  performances. Many of the most important tasks we
  undertake require group efforts. 5
• Assessment tasks should reflect the values of the
  intellectual community from which the tasks are
  derived. 6
• The tasks used to assessment students should
  reveal how students go about solving a problem,
  not only the solutions they have formulated. 7
• The tasks used to assess what students know and
  can do need to reflect the tasks they will
  encounter in the world outside of school, not
  merely those limited to the schools themselves. 8