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Fountas & Pinnell allows teachers to have a resource to base individual student reading levels on. Teachers can use this program to move students through reading levels based on individual student assessment. This program is individualized for each student, and students can progress through the reading levels at their own pace. I have used this program multiple times throughout my practicum experiences and heave only had positive experiences with it.

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Literacy Assessment: Word Association Game 

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In this YouTube video a teacher discusses differentiated assessment within her 3rd grade classroom. In the video the teacher plays a word association game with her students. This game would be great in formatively assessing student’s literacy knowledge and could be used repetitively throughout the school year with students.

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Effective teachers employ a variety of assessment techniques that can occur before, during, and after instruction. Many times, assessment and instructional strategies are integrated into the same activity. In this video, you will see a sample lesson where the teacher uses the game Taboo to assess her students' word choice skills.

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How To Scaffold a Book Study With Your Students 

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This resource details how to complete a book study with you students. This resource is composed of 4 modules as well as resources for scaffolding. This website has great printable templates such as peer feedback and student self-reflection making it easy to prep for lessons.

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AAC is excited to move to the single sign on process. Jurisdiction representatives will be contacted with details on how to switch over. We hope to have this process completed by November 2020.

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Login Login Using Your Jurisdiction Account Or Login Using Google Email You can login with your Google email only if your email ends in: Black Gold School Division gshare.blackgold.ca Elk Island Catholic Schools eics.ab.ca Evergreen Catholic Schools ecsrd.ca Grande Yellowhead Public Schools gypsd.ca High Prairie School Division hpsd.ca Holy Family Catholic Regional Division hfcrd.ab.ca Horizon ...

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This website is fantastic for elementary mathematic assessment. This resource offers rubrics, formative & summative assessment, planning for assessment, achievement indicators, and research on assessment.

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Assessment of learning: assessment experiences designed to collect information about student learning in order to make judgments about student performance and achievement at the end of a period of instruction, to be shared with students, parents/guardians, and others who have a right to know (also called summative assessment; refers to performance data compiled as a grade)

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This reading assessment tool PDF is great for teachers who need ideas for multiple ways to assess students with their literacy skills. This document was made with formative assessment in mind and all of these strategies such as small group assessment and recording assessment can be used in other subjects as well.

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This website lists multiple apps and websites that would be useful for teachers to have when trying to come up with new engaging ways to have students involved in the assessment process and showcase their learning! Some of these apps we went over in our Ed Tech class, but some of them are new.

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75 digital tools and apps teachers can use to support formative assessment in the classroom

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We’ve compiled an extensive list of 75 digital tools that can help teachers use formative assessment to elicit evidence of student learning.

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This website lists formative assessment strategies that can be used in the classroom. The document also states how to do these assessments online which, is helpful now that we see more e-learning classes/opportunities being offered.

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This is another helpful website that discusses how to navigate assessment through online teaching. I believe it is important that we have online assessment in my teacher toolbox as this is a position I may find myself teaching in the future.

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Besides just a mere obligation to prove students passed or completed the course, a ssessments play a key role in measuring the capacity of your eLearners to grasp your course material.

By combining different test and quiz options, and at different intervals of the course, studies have shown - we are effectively providing opportunities for a learner to practice the material. By practicing the subject matter of the course, a student has a much higher chance of retaining more of the content for their future use.

THE TESTING EFFECT (RETRIEVAL-PRACTICE EFFECT) - AS RESEARCHERS CALL IT:

Retrieval-Practice is a useful learning, and retention tool, whereby the more effort is made to put into practice learned knowledge, the more it will be retained by the learner. Retrieval-Practice directly relates to the long-term memory, and the processes required to strengthen that memory.

Repeated exposure and retrieval-practice are not the same learning methods and do not provide the same outcomes for the student when it comes to long-term memory manipulation. Re-reading information does not help it convert from your short-term memory to your long-term memory. However, studies have shown that retrieving knowledge for testing purposes, does assist a learner to transform the new knowledge gain into long-term memory and expertise.

VENTURE ONWARD - ELEARNING DESIGNERS!

It is a new era in educational needs and expectations, and you are responsible for ensuring course participants leave the program prepared to actually apply what you have taught them.

Here are some of our highly recommended ideas you can put into practice immediately to assist employee's learning & retention abilities by creating an effective assessment strategy.

One of the significant advantages, yet seldom used, is to prepare a pre-learning quiz. A quiz initiated at this early stage of the course helps your audience invite and adopt a "learning mentality." This quiz should be designed to be fun, interactive and challenging to show your learners what they may or may not know about the subject matter.

Note: This quiz juncture should never make your learner feel like they are not knowledgeable or bored. Instead, this quiz should provide excitement and spark curiosity! It should also give students a preview of what they will learn in the course. Quizzes at this stage of the learning journey also provide a basis of personal insight into what each student should endeavor to note, personally, and identify as "must-knows" in the lesson plan.

We also know the most accessible form of quiz question is the age-old True/False question. Made to provide a 50:50 chance for a correct answer, most of these questions are worded in an overly simplistic fashion, and learners can get obtain a correct answer even if they have not absorbed the material subject matter of the course.

Start using other matching exercises. They can enhance the learning opportunity and make it more interactive by enabling students to match two sets of data. By matching an item in Column-A to a related item in Column-B, you can encourage a student to get familiarized with the content and measure their ability to identify a relationship or association between similar concepts.

Matching exercises provide an effective way to add variety to your assessment strategy as they can be presented in different ways such as 'drag and match', 'drag and drop' and 'drop down'. Here are some great tips by Connie Malamed for writing matching format test items.

Student self-reflection and self-assessment opportunities should accompany the end of each learning topic or module. By giving the student the time to reflect and encouraging them to pause on and write down what they have just learned, you are helping the student to come to an understanding of how they would put the acquired knowledge into practice at their job.

By encouraging the self-understanding practice, you are also motivating your students. Self-understanding allows students to evaluate, on a personal level, what they have absorbed and what they may need to revisit to get a better grasp of the learning material.

Case studies involve analyzing a real life instance of an event to gain greater insight into what could be done the same or differently in future occurrences. It is an ideal assessment tool and practice for learners as they help bridge the gap between theory and practice.

It is a natural impulse for anyone to solve problems and provide solutions to situations in everyday occurrence. So, why not take advantage of this to provide an interactive learning experience for your audience?

You might be wondering how can you do that? Well, real-life situations can be easily converted into learning activities in your course.

First, outline a problem or a real-world situation

Then, r emove the ending

Now, ask online learners to think of different solutions. Make them explain why they chose a specific solution and how they could have chosen alternate paths to establish the same ending.

Engaging your audience in this fashion and allowing them to interact in the lesson provides a highly personalized learning experience and encourages a student's retention levels.

5) Introduce Scenario-Based Questions

Give your learners an opportunity to apply the knowledge acquired in a practical and realistic situation. Scenario-Based type of questions are one of the most effective learning tools in an eLearning designer's kit. They help your students remember the material and apply it in their job.

The most significant element you can employ when designing a scenario-based question is to develop the problem around a relatable situation - a situation that any learner can "see" as possible in their lives. This approach allows for immediate feedback from the student and becomes an excellent forum for interaction and building the learner's retention.

There are several ways to format scenario-based questions. You have to decide which type will facilitate the most effective and effortless transfer of learning from the course to the job. Here are the different types:

Skill-Based Scenario: In this scenario, the learner is expected to demonstrate skills and knowledge he has already acquired.

Problem-Based Scenario: This type of scenario is ideal for situations where learners have to integrate their theoretical and practical knowledge to investigate a problem. Decision-making, logical reasoning, and critical analyses are integral components of these scenarios.

Issue-Based Scenario: In this type of a scenario, learners get to take a stand on issues, usually with humanitarian perspectives, and explore these to understand how these affect decision-making in professional spheres.

Speculative Scenario: In this scenario, learners have to predict the outcome of an event in the future based on their knowledge and deductions.

Gaming Scenario: As is evident from the moniker, these scenarios involve the use of games as learning tools.

Learn How to Build an Effective an Engaging Scenario here.

It is well known that people learn better when they play. So, why not incorporate this element for assessing learners in your eLearning course?

Games are a great resource for practicing recently learned ideas and knowledge. In games, anything the learner does has a consequence; therefore they become a valuable and experiential tool.

Games also empower students to apply knowledge in real-life situations.. As shown in this graphic by Learning Solutions Magazine , learners achieve optimal performance when they apply knowledge in practical situations.

There are several different types of games, such as: Adventure games, Reality Testing games, Role-play games, Puzzles, Competitions, Sport Games.

By incorporating any of these game types in your eLearning course, you can foster a more positive learning environment for your audience. Difficult learning material can be made more accessible to add to a student's knowledge base, by merely adding the knowledge as a challenge to be overcome in a game.

For instance, when a "difficult" material is processed by students who consistently get the wrong answer during testing; those students can become frustrated or begin to doubt themselves and their abilities resulting in confidence loss.

With the addition of gamification into an intense course-load, the material becomes easier to absorb and retain for the audience.

Always keep in mind these pointers:

1. Include realistic but safe environments for the user.

2. Demand challenges but also make users satisfied.

3. Help develop side knowledge: build a hypothesis, solve problems, and develop strategies.

4. Have defined objectives for each problem.

5. Invite to think, develop, analyze, summarize, and conclude.

6. Be fun: they keep people's interest.

Read more: Why Is Gamification An Epic Formula For eLearning Assessments?

Quizzes, matching exercises, self-assessments, case studies and problem-solving questions, scenario-based questions, and games are some of the best instructional tools you can use when it comes to assessing students throughout an eLearning course.

Beyond course completions, the ultimate success of an eLearning course is measured by the increased capacity for the learner to absorb and retain as much of the information and knowledge presented.

As eLearning designers, it should be our mandate to provide the best possible platform to cultivate the absorption and retention of knowledge for our audience. Adding these simple elements could be the key to that success!
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6 Ways to Assess Your Students in eLearning

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Besides just a mere obligation to prove students passed or completed the course, a ssessments play a key role in measuring the capacity of your eLearners to grasp your course material. By combining different test and quiz options, and at different intervals of the course, studies have shown - we are effectively providing opportunities for a learner to practice the material.

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Let's make assessments fun! I believe that often teachers get stuck in a rut of providing more traditional/teacher led assessments to their students (which is okay to use at times when assessing students). A website like this allows us to have more fun with our students while still assessing them.

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This website lists assessment games that can be used in the classroom. Students should have the opportunity to have fun in the classroom. I believe using games for assessment is a great tool as students are able to have a fun, positive, and enjoyable experience with assessment. Students may not even realize they are being assessed when playing which, may be advantageous for students who have anxiety surrounding assessments.

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Edutopia is a free source of information, inspiration, and practical strategies for learning and teaching in preK-12 education. We are published by the George Lucas Educational Foundation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization.

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Scaffolding is an important aspect of student success in the classroom. Through asking questions and assessing students formatively we are able to draw back teacher supports and allow lessons to become more student/inquiry led. This website has some great scaffolding activities that we can replicate with our students.

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6 Scaffolding Strategies to Use With Your Students

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Support every student by breaking learning up into chunks and providing a concrete structure for each.

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Rich Math Tasks allows a teacher to assess students understanding of a math concept. This website provides math openers, games, and rich math tasks. When you click on an activity it provides you with grade level, learning outcomes, how to do the activity, variations, questions to ask your students, and tips for the classroom. The great thing about Rich Math Tasks is that it has multiple entry points for all students. Rich Math Tasks naturally are created for differentiated assessment, this hopefully allows the teacher to spend the lesson time divided among all the students equally. These tasks are generally student led.

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Every student deserves to have the opportunity to problem-solve and engage in genuine mathematical thinking. Rich tasks are designed to make these rich learning experiences possible. We've written these tasks to launch quickly, engage students, and promote the habits of mind mathematicians need: perseverance & pattern-seeking, courage & curiosity, organization & communication.

This free video PD series will help you get the most out of the tasks below.

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Every student deserves to have the opportunity to problem-solve and engage in genuine mathematical thinking. Rich tasks are designed to make these rich learning experiences possible. We've written these tasks to launch quickly, engage students, and promote the habits of mind mathematicians need: perseverance & pattern-seeking, courage & curiosity, organization & communication.

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This website from Nanaimo Ladysmith Public Schools provides  handy resources for numeracy assessment. This website also has information on how to weave numeracy into other subjects other than math, and assessment tools for other subjects. some of these subjects include anti-racism and FNMI. Through this resource you can select subject, grade, and then an assessment tool.

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This FNMI resource PDF from Alberta Education is extremely helpful for teachers who are trying to create more FNMI lessons with their students. This resource provides lots of great templates for formative assessments that can be printed off as well as an entire chapter that specifically discusses assessment.

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This website targets math and numeracy assessment. They provide assessment tools, numeracy progressions, and additional resources. Under assessment tools it specifically goes through assessment in principle, assessment in practice, effective assessment, feedback and reporting, and analyzing and using data.

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Assessment in mathematics and numeracy is more than forming judgements about a learner's ability. It monitors the learner's understanding of the mathematical language, concepts and skills and what they need to do to succeed.

This requires:

an understanding of how learning develops

what skills and knowledge learners need to progress

the common misunderstandings that can delay learning.

Scaffolding student learning in mathematics is the primary task of teachers.

Teachers need accurate information about what each student already knows and with support, what might be within the student's grasp.

Using assessment tools and techniques that show student thinking requires:

an understanding what different student responses might mean

practical ideas to address the learning needs identified.

School based assessment may also contribute to building a clear picture of the learner. Examples of assessment in mathematics and numeracy include:

feedback and reflection

student self-assessments

student portfolios

validated tools

anecdotal evidence

teacher moderated student assessment tasks

student self-reflections, interests and surveys.

The Victorian Numeracy Learning Progressions outline a sequence of observable indicators of increasingly sophisticated understanding and skills in 15 key numeracy concepts.

The progressions:

give teachers a clear view of numeracy learning

help facilitate professional learning in numeracy development in schools.

The numeracy learning progressions are not a curriculum. Refer to the Victorian Curriculum: Mathematics for content descriptions and achievement standards.

Each learning progression has a series of developmental steps provided in a span. Each step illustrates an observable progression of learning. For example, quantifying numbers has 12 steps in a span from Foundation to Level 6, while operating with decimals has four steps in a span from Level 4 to Level 7.

To support teachers to understand and use the numeracy learning progressions, each progression has been mapped to the Victorian Curriculum F - 10: Mathematics Continuum. Each row shows the number of steps in the learning progression and how they relate to each level. For numeracy, the subheading of each step has also been included to support teacher use.

Assessment theory and practice within the teaching and learning cycle

Guidance and advice for high-quality assessment practices. Provides teachers with specific information to target the learning needs of students.

Assessment in principle - promotes further learning and achievement when the practitioner works collaboratively with the learner, the learner's family, peers and colleagues to plan the learning program.

Assessment in practice - teaching and learning practices integrate ongoing assessment and feedback with high quality instructional practice.

Effective assessment - provides evidence for the practitioner to make decisions about the next steps in the learning program.

Feedback and reporting - determines a learner's level of understanding and skill development in order to plan the next steps towards achieving the learning intentions or goals.

Analysing and using data - including learners in the analysis of their assessment results which encourages them to take ownership of their learning and to set and achieve their own learning intentions.

Insight assessment platform

The Insight Assessment Platform is aimed at helping teacher assess the progress of all learners and support more targeted teaching practices. This online platform can be accessed by teachers in government schools.

Resources, supports and tools, on the platform support high quality assessment practices and provide teachers with information they can use to target the learning needs of students as they progress along the learning continuum.

Scaffolding numeracy in the middle years

The Scaffolding Numeracy in the Middle Years (SNMY) resource allows practitioners to access assessment materials, the Learning and Assessment Framework for Multiplicative Thinking (LAF), learning plans, authentic tasks and research findings from the project that investigated a new assessment-guided approach to improving student numeracy outcomes in Years 4 to 8.

Learning and assessment framework for multiplicative thinking

The Learning and Assessment Framework for Multiplicative Thinking (LAF) was developed on the basis of research conducted through the SNMY project. The LAF helps bring together all of the key ideas, strategies and representations of multiplication and division needed to work confidently with whole numbers, fractions, decimals and percent across a wide range of contexts. It's linked to the rich assessment tasks used to evaluate multiplicative thinking and contains explicit advice on teaching implications.

Assessment for common misunderstandings

The Assessment for Common Misunderstandings (ACM) tools are based on series of research-based Probe Tasks which were developed for teaching purposes to identify learning needs in Number. The Probe Task Manual includes a number of tasks and resources which are organised to address common misunderstandings.

VCAA On Demand Testing - Mathematics - resources in which tests are designed to link the curriculum and standards. The tests deliver sets of questions to students that vary according to student ability.

VCAA Guide to Formative Assessment - Worked example: Numeracy - advice to teachers about how to develop formative assessment rubrics linked to the Victorian Curriculum F - 10.

NAPLAN - Numeracy- annual assessment for students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9. NAPLAN assesses student knowledge and skills in numeracy, reading, writing, spelling, punctuation and grammar.

For information on NAPLAN Data Service, NAPLAN online, test timetable, sample test materials, publications, forms and general information for schools and parents, see: About NAPLAN.

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Assessment in mathematics and numeracy is more than forming judgements about a learner's ability. It monitors the learner's understanding of the mathematical language, concepts and skills and what they need to do to succeed. This requires: an understanding of how learning develops what skills and knowledge learners need to progress the common misunderstandings that can delay learning.

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The MIPI will help gauge how well students understand different math concepts. It's a tool that will allow teachers to identify where your child may be having some challenges. Because it is taken at the beginning of the year, teachers can use it to identify areas of difficulty, so they can help students succeed.

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AWARD-WINNING K-12 READING ASSESSMENT

One K-12 comprehensive assessment provides all the insights needed to guide literacy growth for emergent readers, struggling readers, and high achievers, whether you are testing in-person, remotely, or a combination of both.

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Star Reading is a K-12 comprehensive assessment with all the insights needed to guide literacy growth, wherever you are testing.