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Assessments for Students in Grades 9-12 By: Qin Chen & Julia Low -…
Assessments for Students in Grades 9-12
By: Qin Chen & Julia Low
Formative Assessments By: Qin Chen
Examples
One-minute papers on a specific subject matter
Lesson exit tickets to summarise what pupils have learnt
Short comparative assessments to see how pupils are performing against their peers
Silent classroom polls
Impromptu quizzes or anonymous voting
Ask students to create a visualisation or doodle map of what they learnt
Goal: The goal of a formative assessment is to monitor student learning to provide ongoing feedback that can help students identify their strengths and weaknesses and target areas that need work. It also helps faculty recognize where students are struggling and address problems immediately
Benefits for students
Students can become users of assessment alongside the teacher.
Students learn valuable lifelong skills such as self-evaluation, self-assessment, and goal setting.
Students take responsibility for their own learning.
Students become more adept at self-assessment
Students are more motivated to learn.
Definition: is a range of formal and informal assessment procedures conducted by teachers during the learning process in order to modify teaching and learning activities to improve student attainment.
Benefits for teachers
Teachers can inform students about their current progress in order to help them set goals for improvement
Teachers are able to determine what standards students already know and to what degree.
Teachers can create appropriate lessons and activities for groups of learners or individual students.
Teachers can decide what minor modifications or major changes in instruction they need to make so that all students can succeed in upcoming instruction and on subsequent assessments.
Formative Assessment Cycle
References
https://resourced.prometheanworld.com/types-of-summative-formative-assessment/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formative_assessment
Performance Assessments By: Julia Low
Examples of Performance Assessments
Project-Based Learning
: Students learn through an extended project, which may have a number of checkpoints or assessments along the way. (2) Students create an in-depth project to showcase their understanding of a topic.
-Key features include:
inquiry
exploration
extended duration of project
assessment and reflection
• Oral Presentations
• Reader’s Theatre
• Exhibitions
• Essays
• Multimedia Presentations
• Debates
• Role-Playing
• Experiments
Problem-Based Learning
: Students generate questions based on a standard or essential question, and then discover the answer through their own research. (3)
https://www.mciea.org/performance-assessment.html
What are Performance Assessments
: "Performance assessment, also known as alternative or authentic assessment, is a form of testing that requires students to perform a task rather than select an answer from a ready-made list." (1) They are a type of summative assessment that utilizes performances instead of tests. Performance Assessments allow students to apply "their knowledge, skills, and abilities to authentic problems." (2)
References:
Education Consumer Guide. Office of Research Consumer Guide. September 1993.
https://www2.ed.gov/pubs/OR/ConsumerGuides/perfasse.html#:~:text=Performance%20assessment%2C%20also%20known%20as,from%20a%20ready%2Dmade%20list
. Date of Access: May 27, 2021.
Education Week. What is Performance Assessment.
https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/what-is-performance-assessment/2019/02
. Date of Access: May 27, 2021.
Middleweb: All About the Middle Grades. Assess Students Using Projects and Performance.
https://www.middleweb.com/37938/assessing-students-using-projects-and-performance/
Date of Access: May 27, 2021.
McGraw Hill. What are Performance Assessments and Why Use them?
https://medium.com/inspired-ideas-prek-12/performance-assessment-what-is-it-and-why-use-it-1394712c5d3#:~:text=Effective%20performance%20assessments%20allow%20students,problem%20or%20demonstrate%20a%20skill.&text=And%20when%20students%20understand%20the,%E2%80%94%20and%20their%20achievement%20%E2%80%94%20increases
. Date of Access: May 27, 2021.
Can Performance Assessments better display a student's knowledge, skill or ability on a subject matter? Could Performance Assessment eliminate the need for Standardized Testing?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtE0OsRWeYI&ab_channel=TED-Ed
Why Use Performance Assessments?
Tests allow students to demonstrate knowledge, but performance assessments allow students to apply and utilize knowledge. (4)
Diagnostic Assessment By: Julia Low
Why use Diagnostic Assessments?
In areas such as reading and math, it is crucial to gain a baseline of where the students are in their skill and ability. This allows the learning to be student-centered and help to either speed up or slow down teaching.
Online Tools that Facilitate Diagnostic Assessment:
Edulastic: Pre-set diagnostic assessments that are easy to use and engaging for students.
https://edulastic.com/diagnostic-tests/
Socrative: Online quizzes and games that help with diagnostic assessments.
https://www.socrative.com/
Google Forms: Quick, easy way to gather information from students; results are collated instantly and effortlessly.
https://www.google.com/forms/about/
What are Diagnostic Assessments? "A diagnostic assessment is a form of pre-assessment where teachers can evaluate students’ strengths, weaknesses, knowledge and skills before their instruction." (1)
Happen at the beginning of a unit, lesson, quarter, or period of time.
Goal of understanding student’s current position to inform effective instruction
Identify strengths and areas of improvement for the student
Low-stakes assessments (Usually do not count as a grade) (2)
References
:
Top Hat. Diagnostic Assessment.
https://tophat.com/glossary/d/diagnostic-assessment/#:~:text=A%20diagnostic%20assessment%20is%20a,a%20course's%20required%20learning%20objectives
. Date of Access: May 27, 2021.
Edulastic. What is a Diagnostic Assessment.
https://edulastic.com/blog/diagnostic-assessment/
. Date of Access: May 27, 2021.
Video on Using diagnostic tests in the classroom.
Summative Assessments By: Qin Chen
Examples
End-of-unit or chapter tests
Standardised tests that demonstrate school accountability are used for pupil admissions; SATs, GCSEs and A-Levels
Cumulative work over an extended period such as a final project or creative portfolio
End-of-term or midterm exams
Benefits of summative assessment
Identifies Gap In a Candidate’s Learning
Diagnoses Possible Instructional Gaps
Ideal for Keeping Academic Records for Future
Motivates Individuals For Self Improvement
Determines the Achievement of a Candidate
Goal: The goal of summative assessment is to evaluate student learning at the end of an instructional unit by comparing it against a standard or benchmark.
Features of Summative Assessment
Validity- Assess Candidates Only On The Instructed Course
Volume- Avoid Using Too Much Test Volume
Authencity- Examine Candidates For Real-World Application
Variety- Incorporate Variety Testing Elements
Definition: is the assessment of participants where the focus is on the outcome of a program. This contrasts with formative assessment, which summarizes the participants' development at a particular time.
References
https://resourced.prometheanworld.com/types-of-summative-formative-assessment/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summative_assessment
https://www.testofy.com/blog/2020/02/29/learning-about-the-benefits-of-summative-assessment-a-perpetual-balancing-act/
https://citl.indiana.edu/teaching-resources/assessing-student-learning/summative-formative/index.html
Compare formative and summative assessment By: Qin Chen
limitations
They can only give a snapshot of a pupil’s achievement on a single occasion. This may prevent teachers from drawing clear conclusions about end-to-end strengths and weaknesses.
Some teachers believe that formative assessment can impede upon lesson time itself, with a requirement to rush through learning to proceed with assessments and evaluations.
Summative assessment has been blamed for forcing teachers to educate with no room for creativity, and teaching ‘to the test’.
Formative assessment Versus summative assessment
How do formative and summative assessment fit together?
