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Assessments
Performance Assessments
What is it?
Also known as Authentic Assessment - a form of testing that requires students to preform a task rather than answer a prompt from a ready made list of answers.
Measures how well students apply their knowledge, skills, and abilities to authentic problems
How Does it Work?
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Extended Tasks
Assignments that require sustained attention in a single work area and are carried out over several hours or longer.
Ex: Drafting, reviewing, and revising a song, explaining in a video the photosynthesis of a plant, or a piece of pottery that is created and painted.
Portfolios
Are selected collections of a variety of performance-based work. It might include selections of work that are the student's "best work" and others that show the "works in progress". May include various performance-based pieces.
Exhibition
Requires a public presentation of the skills and knowledge acquired. Often for sciences or performing arts.
Why Try It?
It requires students to actively demonstrate what they know instead of guessing or relying on a memorized piece of information. Performance assessments may be a more valid indicator of students' knowledge and abilities.
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Diagnostic Assessments
Definition
The process of using multiple measures and reports to identify student strengths and needs in specific skill-areas so that teachers can provide instruction to address learning needs. Diagnostic assessment directly guides academic, curricular, and instructional decisions because there is a better understanding of what a student does or does not know in relation to specific learning goals.
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Why they are used
They are intended to help teacher identify what students know and can do in different domains to support their students' learning
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Summative Assessment
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What is it?
Assessing learning upon the completion of an instructional unit. Assessment evaluates student learning over the duration of instruction and may review major content areas, skills, or holistic understanding. Summative assessment may be used to determine readiness for advancement to the next level.
Citations
Kibble, J.D. (2016) Best practices in summative assessment. Advances in Physiology Education
Downloaded from journals.physiology.org/journal/advances (136.232.253.134) on September 27, 2021.
Houston, Don and Thompson, James N., Blending Formative and Summative Assessment in a capstone Subject: ‘It’s not your tools, it’s how you use them’, Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice, 14(3), 2017. Downloaded from :http://ro.uow.edu.au/jutlp/vol14/iss3/2 on September 27
Why is it important?
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Student Perspective
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When learning revolves around summative assessment, students may have desire to increase performance
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Formative Assessment
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What is it?
Ongoing assessment during a unit or larger learning experience. Formative assessment is typically used to monitor learning as it is happening, to gauge student achievement, and inform the trajectory of instruction.
Citations
Wiliam, D. (2017). Embedded formative assessment (2nd ed.). Solution Tree Press.
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Assessments Of, As, and For Learning
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Assessments FOR learning should be ongoing and actionable in the classroom as you teach. This should give you a real idea of how a learner is progressing and understanding the material.
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AS
Assessments AS learning involves students actively in the process of learning. These help to engage students.
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One study found:
“Students develop an interest in mathematical tasks that they understand, see as relevant to their own concerns, and can manage. Recent studies of students’ emotional responses to mathematics suggest that both their positive and their negative responses diminish as tasks become familiar and increase when tasks are novel” Douglas B. McLeod
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Assessments OF learning are usually grade based assessments. These are useful to report information regarding the students progression to the parents.
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