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Research and Assessment (Week 2 (Areas where we assess and evaluate…

- - - - "This 9letter grade/percent mark) is based on achievement of expectations in the IEP that vary from the Grade X expectations (and/or) are in (increase/decrease) in the (number and/or complexity) of curriculum expectations." (Fyn, 2018)
  - - - provide a common framework
      - guide the development of high-quality assessment tasks and tools
      - help teachers to plan instruction for learning
      - provide a basis for consistent and meaningful feedback to students
      - establish categories and criteria with which to assess and evaluate students' learning
  - - - Observations, student products and conversations. I will have to figure out what works best for me in terms of organization.
- - - - To establish a strong foundation for learning in the early years
      - To help children make a smooth transition from home, child care, or preschool settings to school settings
      - To allow children to reap the benefits of learning through relationships, and through play and inquiry
      - To set children on a path
    - - Development of relationships
      - With children
      - Families
      - Co-partners
    - - Connectedness to others
      - Relationships with others (e.g. community, world around them)
      - Child's contributions as part of a group, a community, and the natural world
    - - Integration throughout the day
      - Making math meaningful for our children
      - Multiple opportunities throughout the day
      - Intentional, purposeful educator interactions
      - Active engagement in learning
    - - Innovative ways to thinking (e.g. apply ideas in relationships, materials, environment)
      - Explore the world through natural curiosity
      - Making meaning of their world (e.g. questions, testing, solving problems, engage in creative and analytical thinking)
  - - - Assessment FOR learning
        
        Educator team analyzes and interprets evidence collected
        
        Ongoing: used to design programming and drives the instruction of the educators
        
        Provides insights into child's current thinking
      - Assessment AS learning
        
        Children thinking about and understanding their own learning
        
        Children learn to identify how to further their own learning
        
        Children contribute to own assessment through reflection on documentation
        
        Engage in peer assessment building on views, perspectives, ideas, and wonderings
      - Assessment OF learning
        
        Communication of learning
- - - - What is it? A type of assessment tool that educators use to record notes on a specific learning moment they have observed with a specific child or a group of children
      - Growing Success: grades 1-8: anecdotal comments are used to identify strengths and areas for improvement
      - Used to document what students have learned or are in the process of learning
      - Provides parents with personalized clear, precise, and meaningful feedback on their children
      - Used to determine students strengths and to identify steps for improvement
      - Provides information of each child's development over a period of time
      - Disadvantage: it is hard to compose quality observations
    - - Provides tools for systematically recording observations
      - Allows for active observation, completion of work, and outlines expectations
      - Disadvantage: May hinder creative output
      - Students can assess their own learning
      - Can be used to peer assess
    - - Allows students to assess their own work or peers' work
      - Students gain a better understanding of success criteria and learning objectives
      - Motivates students to do their best
      - Helps students set goals
      - Encourages students to reflect on their work
      - Allows for student interaction with each other
    - - Process of gathering information in a varieties
      - Alerts teachers of struggling students
      - Can be difficult to navigate through a variety of data
      - Allows for opportunity to share, highlight and learn about promising practices in education
    - - Easy to read using are appropriate language
      - 3 types
        
        Analytical
        
        Classic rubric
        
        Criterion is defined
        
        Holisitc
        
        Most general kind
        
        List of levels; usually 1-4
        
        Single-Point
        
        Similar to Analytic
        
        Easier for students to read
      - Can assess individually or in groups
      - Modify depending of exceptionalities and IEPs
    - - Rubrics consist of 4 levels
      - Rubrics can be used to assess listening and speaking abilities
      - Four main themes
        
        Comprehension
        
        Prompting
        
        Full Sentences
        
        Grammar
- - - - Affirms what the person already knows
      - Points out problems
      - Is an "information dump"
      - Tries not to be mean
      - Doesn't always offer a plan of action
      - Comes from the top down
      - Students will rarely read feedback if there is a grade attached
    - - Regenerates talen
      - Expands possibilities
      - Is particular
      - Is authentic
      - Has an impact
      - Refines group dynamics
- - - - How?
        
        Think about what it is you really want to know
        
        Find out how to collect the data
        
        Analyze the data
        
        Figure out what you are going to do with the data
        
        Put a plan in motion
        
        Know when the plan is successful or needs to be changed
  - - - What did you learn at school today?
        
        Kids usually respond "I don't remember." Reason being, they usually already forgot what they learned that day
      - Is this going to be on the test?
        
        If school put learning, instead of testing and memorizing as the top standard, then the letter F will not stand for failure. It will stand for find another answer
      - Students will get more benefit from an extra hour of sleep, instead of another essay, more homework, etc.
      - School teaches students how to memorize the dots, a good education should teach students how to memorize the dots