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Teacher Vision: Student Assessment Advice and Forms

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Teacher Vision: Student Assessment Advice and Forms

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"...find ideas on assessment strategies, modifications, and enhancing your existing methods. These assessment forms and techniques will work across the curriculum, so use them for math, science, reading, language arts, social studies, and your other subjects."

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Student assessments can be a tricky task. Our collection of ideas and forms will make it easier for you to evaluate and grade your students' work, no matter their grade level. There are as many variations of assessment as there are students. Look below to find ideas on assessment strategies, modifications, and enhancing your existing methods. These assessment forms and techniques will work across the curriculum, so use them for math, science, reading, language arts, social studies, and your other subjects.

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Student Assessment Advice & Forms for Teachers - TeacherVision

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Student assessments can be a tricky task. Our collection of ideas and forms will make it easier for you to evaluate and grade your students' work, no matter their grade level. There are as many variations of assessment as there are students. Look below to find ideas on assessment strategies, modifications, and enhancing your existing methods.

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Edulastic: Homework as Formative Assessment

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Talk to any educator in a general way about assessments and they'll tell you "we have enough of those." Get more specific by mentioning formative assessments-done on a daily basis to foster personalized and differentiated instruction or remediation-and you'll get their attention.

In Part 1, I covered the rich debate over using homework as a formative assessment. Overall, the consensus is this: If homework is a part of the formative assessment process it shouldn't be graded.

Katy Dyer in a post on NWEA- Homework as Formative Assessment -took the position that homework cannot be graded if a teacher wants to use it as a formative assessment. "Formative assessment is not for grading," adding later, "To say that all homework is formative assessment only depends on the assignment being given and how the teacher uses homework."

In short, no matter the pure definition, I don't think it is accurate to say that formative assessments can't ever be graded. What matters - what makes a formative assessment formative - is whether I have a chance to get and use feedback in a later version of the 'same' performance. It's only formative if it is ongoing; it's only summative if it is the final chance, the 'summing up' of student performance.

Graded or not, homework is an ideal practice space for student mastery. Teachers can use this space (evaluated or evaluation-free) as a way to see daily student progress.

But can all the assessment forms be balanced or mixed to a certain degree?

Turning Student Practice into a "Next Generation Assessment"

It's fair to say that there is a limitation, right wall, when it comes to testing. Finding the right balance of summative and formative assessments is complicated-but perhaps it's not out of the question particularly when it comes to Standards-Based Instruction. Gee Kin Chou, in Quelling the Controversy Over Technology and Student Testing, mentioned one approach to balancing of assessments-yet admitted it could lead to more testing:
Attendees at NCSA 2014 spoke of a 'balanced assessment system' comprised of frequent formative assessments to inform teaching, a few interim assessments throughout the year to check alignment with standards, and the annual summative assessment for accountability.
Gee Kin Chou hints toward the future of assessments, augmented by technology, where the boundaries of summative and formative assessment just may become obscured.
The potential to blend instruction with both formative and summative assessments into one continuous process that engages the student...The cautious hope among many NCSA 2014 attendees is that technology eventually will enable assessments to be fully integrated into instruction, and students will neither know nor care whether the activity is being "graded"; they will just be learning.
It's fair to say that the future of all assessments is still unknown. What about just looking at formative assessments for what they are?

Why Formative Assessments & Homework Matter

Putting more effort into formative assessments seems to be the right approach to take (whether homework is leveraged in the process or not). The question then becomes this: What are the sources of formative assessments and how should we value them?

put together a phenomenal resource entitled David Wees 56 different examples of formative assessment. Here's just two examples with their explanations ( see the resources below for more assessment strategies).

In a 2006 study, Harris Cooper, a professor of psychology and director of Duke's Program in Education, reviewed over 60 research studies on homework between 1987 and 2003. He concluded that homework undoubtedly has a positive effect on student achievement and overall success in school. "With only rare exception, the relationship between the amount of homework students do and their achievement outcomes was found to be positive and statistically significant."

While this may be true, giving students too much homework can be detrimental. Students tend to get burned out and any correlation between homework and higher grades may be diminished.

No matter how technology influences the future of assessments-from formative to interim to summative-it's clear that all forms of assessment matter and so does homework. Finding the right balance of mixing assessments, and making students responsible for meaningful and balanced homework assignments, seems to be the right approach to take.

Please share your thoughts on both issues.

And for anyone still skeptical about homework, here's how Sew Ali at Edudemic, in Why Homework Matters, puts it:

So, even if you don't buy into the fact that homework will make a child a higher academic achiever in the short term (even though research states otherwise), realize that it just might create a human being with good habits, a rich work ethic, and a success later on in the world outside academia.

*Further Reading & Resources

Why Formative Assessments Matter
The Key Differences Between Summative And Formative Assessments How To Use Formative Assessment With (And Without) Technology 6 Common Misunderstandings About Assessment Of Learning 8 Frequent Sources Of Formative Assessment Data 20 Simple Assessment Strategies You Can Use Every Day A Teacher's Guide To Performance Assessment

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Eberly Center: Formative vs Summative Assessments

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Eberly Center: Formative vs Summative Assessments

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"What is the difference between formative and summative assessment?"

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Formative assessment

The goal of formative assessment is to monitor student learning to provide ongoing feedback that can be used by instructors to improve their teaching and by students to improve their learning. More specifically, formative assessments:

help students identify their strengths and weaknesses and target areas that need work

help faculty recognize where students are struggling and address problems immediately

Formative assessments are generally low stakes, which means that they have low or no point value. Examples of formative assessments include asking students to:

draw a concept map in class to represent their understanding of a topic

submit one or two sentences identifying the main point of a lecture

turn in a research proposal for early feedback

Summative assessment

The goal of summative assessment is to evaluate student learning at the end of an instructional unit by comparing it against some standard or benchmark.

Summative assessments are often high stakes, which means that they have a high point value. Examples of summative assessments include:

Information from summative assessments can be used formatively when students or faculty use it to guide their efforts and activities in subsequent courses.

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Formative vs Summative Assessment - Eberly Center - Carnegie Mellon University

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"Look beyond high-stakes testing to learn about different ways of assessing the full range of student ability -- social, emotional, and academic achievement."

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