Assessing for Success An invention

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Assessing for SuccessAn invention

• Erin Blight, Bianca Crandall Marie Carter

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Ok class get out your pens I am handing out your
assessment this lesson
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The Fear of Assessment

• 15 students absent on the assignment due date
• 10 students away on the day of the test
• Why..?

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• In many cases students do not understand what
  they have to do..

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Draft attempt at perfection
Need What you specifically want to achieve
Draft attempt at perfection
Draft attempt at perfection
Standards What specifically do you want the
invention to do/achieve?
THE INVENTION The final finished product
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• Need

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• Standards
• What informed our standards..?

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Improving learning through assessment requires

• Feedback
• Active student involvement
• Altering teaching practices
• Awareness of students motivation and self esteem
• Student self assessment

Black Williams, 1998
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• A tool that increases students understanding of
  assessment requirements.

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• 2. Improves students attitudes and perceptions
  towards assessment by allowing them to dictate
  their own learning and achievement goals.

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• 3. Assist students to decode text on common task
  and criteria sheets, creating a bridge for
  students with literacy related learning
  difficulties

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4. Arm students with the process skills to
encourage Lifelong Learning - through increased
self reflection, self motivation and self
monitoring.
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• 5. Incorporate the latest research on best
  assessment practices.

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• 6. Work with current classroom practices not to
  be used as a stand alone tool

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Easy to read criteria sheet
INVENTION Assessment Awareness Tool
How to reflect
Feedback techniques give effective feedback
Habits of Mind
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• Drafts

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DRAFT 1
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DRAFT 2
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• Invention

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Nearly there
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