An overview of strong assessment practices with particular attention paid to the value of formative assessment and the importance of varied assessment practices.

1. Assessment Cindy Plantecoste and Stacy Stephens

2. Today’s Desired Outcome To answer the question… Where do we stand on Assessment?

3. Agenda The Challenge of Assessment Rate Yourself as an Assessor Coded Reading Going Deeper: Summative vs. Formative Application to Your Unit

4. Individually What is challenging about assessment?

5. Group Share Record your thinking

6. Debrief Another Using the chart from another table: Ask yourselves, where are you in agreement?

7. Rate Yourself

10. Break

11. “Don’t fatten the cow by weighing it”

12. Going Deeper: Summative vs. Formative

13. The National Education Association report on student assessment states that all assessments in a balanced assessment system arise from the foundational understanding that the primary mission of schools is to maximize success for all students and not merely to rank students based on achievements. This is why the majority of assessment should be formative rather than summative.

14. Self-Assessment Using the Unit Assessment on pg. 16 Examine your balance of Formative vs. Summative Questions to consider: What is the % of formative vs. summative? Are you in “balance”? How would you rate the quality of these assessments vis a vis standards and benchmarks? Debrief at your table.

15. Indicators of Quality Three levels to examine for quality Formative Performance Teachers who assess with formative assessment

16. Putting your Assessments to the Test

17. Assessment Mix and Coherence Old Bloom New Bloom

18. Consider Write/Do/Say

19. Performance Tasks

20. Applying all you Know Using the coherence grid…apply to your selected unit Be prepared to regroup with subject specific teams

21. An Example from HS French 3

22. Birds of a Feather Share the grid of your unit What observation can you make based on this process about your own work? What questions do you have regarding our discussions today?

23. Citations Quote: www.doe.virginia.gov/teaching/career_resources/prof.../overview.pdf Most images via The Library of Congress Except: Birds: http://entertainment.ezinemark.com/black-and-white-photographs-of-animals-77362d1a1977.html Road: http://www.lauriegough.com/passions.html Fruit: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Variety_is_the_spice_of_life.jpg Crash Test: http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ncdiv/docs/patbroc.htm