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Assessments
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Ipsative assessments Ipsative assessments are one of the types of assessment as learning that compares previous results with a second try, motivating students to set goals and improve their skills.
When a student hands in a piece of creative writing, it’s just the first draft. They practice athletic skills and musical talents to improve, but don’t always get the same chance when it comes to other subjects like math.
A two-stage assessment framework helps students learn from their mistakes and motivates them to do better. Plus, it removes the instant gratification of goals and teaches students learning is a process.
Why use Ipsative Assessments?
Ipsative assessment is a mode of assessment in which the assessed individual is compared to him- or herself either in the same field through time or in comparison with other fields. It is used in and sometimes referred to as ‘profiling. In education, ipsative assessment means the assessment is referenced to learners’ former performances, resulting in a descriptor expressed in terms of their ‘personal best’.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzvwiCzRxbI
You can incorporate ipsative assessments into your classroom with:
Portfolios
A two-stage testing process
Project-based learning activities
One study on ipsative learning techniques found that when it was used with higher education distance learners, it helped motivate students and encouraged them to act on feedback to improve their grades.
Formative assessments are used to monitor pupil learning style and ability, to provide ongoing feedback, and allow educators to improve and adjust their teaching methods and for students to improve their learning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RXYTpgvB5I
Why use formative assessments?
Formative assessments help you track how student knowledge is growing and changing. They help educators recognize where students are struggling and address problems immediately.
Formative assessments help teachers understand student learning while they teach, and adjust their teaching strategies accordingly.
Examples of formative assessments include:
Portfolios, class discussions, entry and exit tickets, regular quizzes, and group projects. Here is a video from a high school classroom showing the use of entry tickets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUqK20VRM3w
Diagnostic assessments are pretests. They happen at the beginning of a unit, lesson, quarter, or period of time. These are usually not graded
Why use It?
Diagnostic assessments can help benchmark student progress.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-WEmsuvDsA
Some examples of diagnostic assessments include:
Mind maps, flow charts, student reflections, pre-tests, short quizzes, and classroom discussions
Diagnostic assessments can help identify strengths and areas of improvement for the student. Giving a pre-test can be valuable to the students if you give the same assessment at the end of the unit to see how much the students have learned.
Criterion-referenced assessments
What is it?
It's designed to measure a student's performance against a fixed set of pre-determined criteria. It is done without the reference of the achievement of others, meaning a student is only compared to themselves regardless of how the others performed. The pre-fixed criteria are what students have to do during the assessment in order to demonstrate that they have achieved the learning outcomes.
https://youtu.be/BF8NsKr75Pw
Why use it?
The criterion reference assessments has it advantages.
Students are only tested on their knowledge of specific goals.
If the students do not master a particular standard, the teacher can go back and teach that standard again until the student performs up to par.
The teacher is able to focus their instruction based solely on the students’ needs.
Students with learning difficulties
This assessment is great for special education as it tests students on what they can do.
Examples of Criterion referenced tests
Advanced Placement exams
The National Assessment of Educational Progress
Drivers test
Summative assessments.
Summative assessments measure student progress as an assessment of learning and provide data for you, school leaders and district leaders.
They're valuable when it comes to communicating student progress, but they don’t always give clear feedback on the learning process and can foster a “teach to the test” mindset if you’re not careful.
Plus, they’re stressful for teachers. One Harvard survey found 60% of teachers said “preparing students to pass mandated standardized tests” “dictates most of” or “substantially affects” their teaching.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjnrI3ZO2tU
Why use summative Assessments?
Summative assessments can serve as a guide to improving teaching methods. We all use different teaching methodology within the classroom. Summative assessments can help us collaborate and improve teaching methods from year to year.
The data that is collected using a summative assessment can help teachers, schools, and districts make decisions based on the instruction that has already been complete. This contrasts formative assessment, as formative assessment can help teachers and students during the instruction process. It is important to understand the difference between the two, as both assessments, along with pre-assessment, can play an important role in education.
Summative assessments can be in the form of
Recording a podcast
Writing a script for a short play
Producing an independent study project
just to name a few.
Summative assessments help teachers and administrators alike, in improving curriculum and curriculum planning. Standards-driven instruction plays a large role in schools today. When summative assessments show consistent gaps between student knowledge and learning targets, schools may turn to improved curriculum planning or new curriculum to fill those learning gaps.
Norm-referenced assessments
What is it?
A test designed to rank and compare students in relation to one another. It measures and reports whether the performance was better or worse than a theoretical average.
https://youtu.be/jOYybHLFjac
Why use it?
The norm-referenced test is an effective way in identifying the differences between the performance of class members, which might be useful in the diagnosis of learning difficulties or disability.
Here are reasons for its application.
To evaluate basic skills, such as writing and reading.
To determine whether or not a child is ready for preschool or kindergarten.
To make college admission decisions
http://www.yurtopic.com/education/teachers/norm-testing.html
Students with learning difficulties
It's a useful assessment technique to identify particular learning disabilities, including dyslexia and autism.
Examples of norm-referenced tests
I.Q tests
SAT's
Stanford Achievement Test
TerraNova test
Why do we need assessments?
Different types of assessments help you understand student progress in various ways and adapt your teaching strategies accordingly.
In the classroom, assessments generally have one of three purposes:
Assessment of learning -- Assessments are a way to find out what students have learned and if they’re aligning to curriculum or grade-level standards.
Assessments of learning are usually grade-based, and can include:
Exams
Portfolios
Final Projects
Standardised Tests
They have a concrete grade attached to them that communicates student achievement to teachers, parents, students, school-level administrators and district leaders.
Common types of assessment of learning include:
Summative assessments
Norm-referenced assessments
Criterion-referenced assessments
Assessment for learning -- Assessments for learning provide you with a clear snapshot of student learning and understanding as you teach -- allowing you to adjust everything from your classroom management strategies to your lesson plans as you go. Assessments for learning should always be ongoing and actionable. When you’re creating assessments, keep these key questions in mind:
What do students still need to know?
What did students take away from the lesson?
Did students find this lesson too easy? Too difficult?
Did my teaching strategies reach students effectively?
What are students most commonly misunderstanding?
What did I most want students to learn from this lesson? Did I succeed?
Assessment as learning.
Assessment as learning actively involves students in the learning process. It teaches critical thinking skills, problem-solving and encourages students to set achievable goals for themselves and objectively measure their progress.
They can help engage students in the learning process, too!
