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Dylan Wiliam Webinar: Strategic Formative Assessment | Learning Sciences Dylan Wiliam Center

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Recently, Teaching Channel brought you into classrooms where teachers and students are using formative assessment to adjust ongoing teaching and learning strategies to improve student learning:

While these videos take a deep dive into formative assessment, we also want to provide you with some quick tips and resources. These are some of our favorites:

Try These Today

These strategies are so simple and easy to do, you could try them today.

Hand Signals: Quickly gauge student understanding with hand signals by asking students for a thumbs up, sideways, or down to indicate their level of understanding. Another popular hand signal is Fist to Five, where you ask students for a 1 to 5 rating of their understanding.

Four Corners: In four corners, you ask a question and students move to a labeled corner of the room in response. Once students are in their corner, you can either use it to get a sense of the class's understanding, or have the students stay in their corners for further discussion. While many teachers already use four corners for debates, by changing the type of question asked you can make this activity about assessment.

Exit Tickets: Exit Tickets are a great way to assess student learning. Students hand you a "ticket," which could be an answer to a question or a more complicated set of problems to complete. As a middle school teacher, I loved using quick writes as exit tickets. Before the end of a lesson, I would think about a concept that my students may have struggled with, ask a related question, and give them two to three minutes to answer it on an index card. Check out the first few minutes of Julie Manley's eighth grade classroom to see a quick write used as a pre-assessment.

Take notes! Note taking is a great way to keep track of student progress. You can take informal notes about common student misconceptions, great student thinking, or anything else you want to take into consideration. Keep it simple and use a notebook or a clipboard as Audra McPhillips does in her classroom, or try one of these note taking apps.

Try These Tomorrow

These formative assessment strategies are as easy to use as the ideas above, but they may take a little practice.

My Favorite No: Leah Alcala's My Favorite No Strategy is similar to an exit ticket, but you look at the student work in the moment and use your favorite "no" (wrong answer) to clear up misconceptions.

The Stoplight Method: This is a fun and effective way to collect data on student learning and instructional decisions. Students post what they learned (green light), their ideas and questions (yellow light), and if anything stopped their learning (red light).

Use Journals: Instead of you taking the notes on student thinking, get the students to write down their thoughts. Use journal time to take a quick glance at the writing - as well as check in with students - giving you a chance to adjust instruction as needed. Watch Math Journals: A Record for Students and Teachers to see how Ms. Lassiter uses them in her classroom.

Try These Next Week

There are so many awesome tech tools to use in the classroom. Here are some ideas for how technology can help with formative assessment.

Video: Normally thought of for flipping your classroom, video can be used to create pre and post assessments if you add questions about the concept. Students usually love watching video, and you'll be able to collect and analyze data. One free and fairly easy way to do this is with Google forms, where you can add YouTube videos. Here is a good list of other options to try.

Polling: Polling can be used to engage students while collecting data on student learning. While many teachers buy clickers, Sarah Brown Wessling embraces her students' cell phones by using Poll Everywhere for text message polling. ( Watch Sarah use Poll Everywhere with her students.) Or look for options that can be used on multiple platforms such as as Socrative, a tool Jim Sherred uses in his physics classroom.

Quizzing: If you really love interactive quizzes, take a look at Quia (Quintessential Instructional Archive), which provides a variety of tools, templates, feedback systems and shared activities and quizzes.

This list is certainly not exhaustive; a quick internet search will lead you to many resources on formative assessment. And, I'm sure you have a ton of ideas to share! Let's keep this list going - please add your great ideas in the comments section below.
Gretchen Vierstra taught middle school for ten years in the San Francisco Bay Area. During her 15+ years in education, she's also been a department chair, new teacher coach, curriculum developer, and policy analyst. She is an Education Content Manager at Teaching Channel.

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Recently, Teaching Channel brought you into classrooms where teachers and students are using formative assessment to adjust ongoing teaching and learning strategies to improve student learning: While these videos take a deep dive into formative assessment, we also want to provide you with some quick tips and resources.

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The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium is an organization of member states committed to providing tools and resources that support teaching and learning. The three core components of the Smarter Balanced Assessment System are summative assessments, interim assessments, and formative assessment practices. The videos in this series demonstrate how teachers implement the intent of the Common Core State Standards using the Formative Assessment Process. They were created as components of interactive modules in the Smarter Balanced Digital Library, but we are pleased to share them with you on Teaching Channel's website.

Formative assessment is a deliberate process used by teachers and students during instruction that provides actionable feedback used to adjust ongoing teaching and learning strategies to improve students' attainment of curricular learning targets/goals.

There are four attributes in the Formative Assessment Process:

Clarify intended learning

Elicit evidence

Interpret evidence

Act on evidence

All of the videos in this series include the four attributes of the Formative Assessment Process and are segmented to highlight each attribute.

In the video segments focusing on clarifying intended learning, you will see teachers and students defining the learning goals and success criteria for the instructional task. For instance, in the video Formative Assessment: Collaborative Discussions, Kelly Bouchard engages her students in creating success criteria using guiding questions about what a collaborative discussion looks like.

See a variety of ways that teachers and students elicit evidence in the segments focusing on this attribute. In Formative Assessment: Understanding Fractions, you'll see fourth grade teacher Melissa Romano circulating around the room, asking questions, listening to students explain their thinking, and recording observational notes on student progress as partners work on candy factory problems.

Learn how teachers and students interpret evidence in the segments focusing on this attribute. For example, in Formative Assessment: Proportional Relationships, students in Charles Elsdon's seventh grade math class use a rubric to interpret evidence of their own and their peers' learning. Mr. Elsdon and the students identify the success criteria students meet and those they do not yet meet. They use this interpretation to adjust teaching and learning strategies.

The final segments spotlighting acting on evidence demonstrate how teachers and students adjust teaching and learning. Watch Formative Assessment: Understanding Congruence and see how high school math teacher April Pforts decides when students are ready to apply their learning about congruent figures to real world applications.

The teachers and students in this series provide a window into the Formative Assessment Process. We are pleased to have partnered with the innovative educators, engaging students, and Teaching Channel to create the videos and hope you find them informative.
Dr. Chrystyna Mursky is the Director of Supports for Instruction for the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium. She oversees the Consortium's initiatives related to the formative assessment process and professional learning opportunities for educators. With more than 30 years of education experience, Dr. Mursky has taught or served as an administrator at every level, from K-12 to higher education. For more information about Smarter Balanced, visit the website at smarterbalanced.org or follow on Twitter @SmarterBalanced.

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Formative Assessment Practices To Support Student Learning

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Rick Wormeli: Redos, Retakes, and Do-Overs, Part One

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Through alternative formative assessment, teachers can check for student understanding without falling back on the tedious or intimidating pop quiz.

What strategy can double student learning gains? According to 250 empirical studies, the answer is formative assessment, defined by Bill Younglove as "the frequent, interactive checking of student progress and understanding in order to identify learning needs and adjust teaching appropriately."

Unlike summative assessment, which evaluates student learning according to a benchmark, formative assessment monitors student understanding so that kids are always aware of their academic strengths and learning gaps. It also helps teachers improve the effectiveness of their instruction. "When the cook tastes the soup," writes Robert E. Stake, "that's formative; when the guests taste the soup, that's summative." Formative assessment can be administered as an exam. But if the assessment is not a traditional quiz, it falls within the category of alternative assessment.

Alternative formative assessment (AFA) strategies can be as simple (and important) as checking the oil in your car-hence the name "dipsticks." They're especially effective when students are given tactical feedback, immediately followed by time to practice the skill. My favorite techniques are those with simple directions, like The 60 Second Paper, which asks students to describe the most important thing they learned and identify any areas of confusion in one minute.

You can find another 53 ways to check for understanding toward the end of this post and as a downloadable document.

Observation: A Key Practice in Alternative Formative Assessment

A fundamental element of most AFAs is observation. Rebecca Alber writes there is much to learn by taking observational notes as students work in groups. "However," she clarifies, "if it is quiet during this talk time, and they are watching you watch them, they are most likely lost." Elena Aguilar has witnessed " a fantastic first grade Sheltered English teacher " who directed his students to respond to a story by making hand gestures and holding up picture cards: "In this way, the teacher was able to immediately see who was struggling with the concepts and provide corrective feedback."

By methodically watching and recording student performance with a focused observation form, you can learn a lot about students' levels of understanding in just a few moments. For example, math teacher Taryn Pritchard uses an observation sheet to assess students' mastery levels in only 10 seconds. Pre-planning methodical observations allow instructors to efficiently and effectively intervene when it counts most-in the instant students start down the wrong path.

New to Alternative Formative Assessment? Start Slow

The National Capital Language Resource Center recommends the following when introducing alternative assessment for the first time:

Integrate alternative assessments gradually, while still using the traditional assessments.

Walk students through the rubrics and discuss expectations when you introduce assignments.

Learn to score alternative assessments yourself, and then gradually introduce students to self-evaluation.

Teach students how to thoughtfully give each other feedback as you introduce them to peer-response.

A Simple Way to Gain Information From Your Students: Ask Them

When preservice teachers are confused as to why their students perform poorly on an assignment, I gently say, "Did you ask them why?" Having learners articulate why they're stuck can be profoundly useful for identifying where to target support.

According to the American Institute of Nondestructive Testing, the simplest tool to encourage student self-assessment is evaluative prompts:

How much time and effort did you put into this?

What do you think your strengths and weaknesses were in this assignment?

How could you improve your assignment?

What are the most valuable things you learned from this assignment?

Learners can respond to those prompts using Padlet, a virtual corkboard where many computer users can simultaneously post their responses; follow up with a focused whole-class discussion of those answers. The instructor doesn't always have to develop prompts-students can invent and submit one or more potential exam questions and answers on relevant content. Tell them that you'll include the best contributions on a forthcoming quiz.

Portfolios are a more complex form of ongoing self-assessment, one that can feature in student-led conferences. James Mule, principal of St. Amelia Elementary School in New York, describes how children benefit from the student-led conferences that occur at his institution: "With the student in charge and the teacher acting as a facilitator, the authentic assessment gives students practice in self-evaluation and boosts accountability, self-confidence, and self-esteem."

The biggest benefit of integrating AFAs into your practice is that students will internalize the habit of monitoring their understanding and adjusting accordingly.

53 Ways to Check for Understanding

1. Summary Poem Activity

List 10 key words from an assigned text.

Do a free verse poem with the words you highlighted.

Write a summary of the reading based on these words.

2. Invent the Quiz
Write ten higher-order text questions related to the content. Pick two and answer one of them in half a page.

3. The 411
Describe the author's objective.

4. Opinion Chart
List opinions about the content in the left column of a T-chart, and support your opinions in the right column.

5. So What? Journal
Identify the main idea of the lesson. Why is it important?

6. Rate Understanding

7. Clickers (Response System)

8. Teacher Observation Checklist

9. Explaining
Explain the main idea using an analogy.

10. Evaluate
What is the author's main point? What are the arguments for and against this idea?

11. Describe
What are the important characteristics or features of the main concept or idea of the reading?

12. Define
Pick out an important word or phrase that the author of a text introduces. What does it mean?

13. Compare and Contrast
Identify the theory or idea the author is advancing. Then identify an opposite theory. What are the similarities and differences between these ideas?

14. Question Stems

I believe that ________ because _______.

I was most confused by X.

15. Mind Map
Create a mind map that represents a concept using a diagram-making tool (like Gliffy). Provide your teacher/classmates with the link to your mind map.

16. Intrigue Journal
List the five most interesting, controversial, or resonant ideas you found in the readings. Include page numbers and a short rationale (100 words) for your selection.

17. Advertisement
Create an ad, with visuals and text, for the newly learned concept.

18. 5 Words
What five words would you use to describe ______? Explain and justify your choices.

19. Muddy Moment
What frustrates and confuses you about the text? Why?

20. Collage
Create a collage around the lesson's themes. Explain your choices in one paragraph.

21. Letter
Explain _______ in a letter to your best friend.

22. Talk Show Panel
Have a cast of experts debate the finer points of X.

23. Study Guide
What are the main topics, supporting details, important person's contributions, terms, and definitions?

24. Illustration
Draw a picture that illustrates a relationship between terms in the text. Explain in one paragraph your visual representation.

25. KWL Chart
What do you know, what do you want to know, and what have you learned?

26. Sticky Notes Annotation
Use sticky notes to describe key passages that are notable or that you have questions about.

27. 3-2-1

Three things you found out.

Two interesting things.

One question you still have.

28. Outline
Represent the organization of X by outlining it.

29. Anticipation Guide
Establish a purpose for reading and create post-reading reflections and discussion.

30. Simile
What we learned today is like X.

31. The Minute Paper
In one minute, describe the most meaningful thing you've learned.

32. Interview You
You're the guest expert on 60 Minutes. Answer:

1. What are component parts of _______?

2. Why does this topic matter?

33. Double Entry Notebook
Create a two-column table. Use the left column to write down 5-8 important quotations. Use the right column to record reactions to the quotations.

34. Comic Book
Use a comic book creation tool like Bitstrips to represent understanding.

35. Tagxedo
What are key words that express the main ideas? Be ready to discuss and explain.

36. Classroom TED Talk

37. Podcast
Play the part of a content expert and discuss content-related issues on a podcast, using the free Easypodcast.

38. Create a Multimedia Poster with Glogster

39. Twitter Post
Define _______ in under 140 characters.

40. Explain Your Solution
Describe how you solved an academic problem, step by step.

41. Dramatic Interpretation
Dramatize a critical scene from a complex narrative.

42. Ballad
Summarize a narrative that employs a poem or song structure using short stanzas.

43. Pamphlet
Describe the key features of _______ in a visually and textually compelling pamphlet.

44. You've Got Mail
Each student writes a question about a topic on the front of an envelope; the answer is included inside. Questions are then "mailed" around the room. Each learner writes her answer on a slip of scratch paper and confirms its correctness by reading the "official answer" before she places her own response in the envelope. After several series of mailings and a class discussion about the subject, the envelopes are deposited in the teacher's letterbox.

45. Bio Poem
To describe a character or person, write a poem that includes:

(Line 1) First name

(Line 2) 3-4 adjectives that describe the person

(Line 3) Important relationship

(Line 4) 2-3 things, people, or ideas the person loved

(Line 5) Three feelings the person experienced

(Line 6) Three fears the person experienced

(Line 7) Accomplishments

(Line 8) 2-3 things the person wanted to see happen or wanted to experience

(Line 9) His or her residence

(Line 10) Last name

46. Sketch
Visually represent new knowledge.

47. Top Ten List
What are the most important takeaways, written with humor?

48. Color Cards

Red = "Stop, I need help."

Green = "Keep going, I understand."

Yellow = "I'm a little confused."

49. Quickwrite
Without stopping, write what most confuses you.

50. Conference
A short, focused discussion between the teacher and student.

51. Debrief
Reflect immediately after an activity.

52. Exit Slip
Have students reflect on lessons learned during class.

53. Misconception Check
Given a common misconception about a topic, students explain why they agree or disagree with it.

Other Assessment Resources

In Edutopia's " The Power of Comprehensive Assessment," Bob Lenz describes how to create a balanced assessment system.

The Assessment and Rubrics page of Kathy Schrock's Guide to Everything website hosts many excellent assessment rubrics.

More Rubrics for Assessment are provided by the University of Wisconsin-Stout.

Jon Mueller's Authentic Tasks and Rubrics is a must see-resource in his Authentic Assessment Toolbox website.

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Dipsticks: Efficient Ways to Check for Understanding

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Through alternative formative assessment, teachers can check for student understanding without falling back on the tedious or intimidating pop quiz. What strategy can double student learning gains? According to 250 empirical studies, the answer is formative assessment, defined by Bill Younglove as "the frequent, interactive checking of student progress and understanding in order to identify learning needs and adjust teaching appropriately."

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53 Easy to Implement Ideas for Checking for Understanding. Some specific examples included.

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Alice LaVoie's Presentation on Socrative

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Turnitin.com Webcast on Students Feed Back: Student Perceptions of Instructor Feedback

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Turnitin.com Webcast on The Place of Feedback in High Stakes Assessment

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District Guide to Writing Effective Questions

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Turnitin.com White Paper: From the Margins - What Instructors Say on Student Papers

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Turnitin.com White Paper: Closing the Gap - What Students Say about Instructor Feedback

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EdCamp Resources on Dennis King's Training

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EdCamp Resources on OTHER ASSESSMENT TOPICS

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EdCamp Resources on OTHER ASSESSMENT TOPICS

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EdCamp Resources on PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT

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EdCamp Resources on PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT

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EdCamp Resources on SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT

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EdCamp Resources on FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT

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When students have a growth mindset they are motivated to learn. Watch as psychologist Carol Dweck describes the growth mindset and ways to nurture it. Ms. Dweck references the Envision Education videos on Deeper Learning.

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The Birth and Death of Portfolio Assessment - National Writing Project

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Last week, I was composing a rubric to go along with a writing assignment for my juniors. The assignment, though cleverly disguised as an end-of-unit essay for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, is actually a mock paper for the IB Language and Literature curriculum. For this assignment, students select one of six prescribed (by IB, not by me) questions to answer in the context of a text they've read. They then develop an 800-to-1000-word response that is grounded in the text.

How It Came to Be

An important demand of this assignment is using evidence from the text to support students' own assertions. Not only must they find relevant quotations that support their argument (rather than simply summarizing the story), but they must do so while maintaining a formal tone and smooth style. I have found that students struggle with this skill year after year, despite repeated instruction and practice.

This time around, I wanted to be better about giving students more resources to help them integrate their quotations. In the spirit of backward design, I began by adding a separate section for quotation integration on the rubric (in the past it had been part of the organization category). I decided that, in addition to my usual verbal explanation and distribution of a few quick samples, I'd show students a video tutorial to reinforce the concept. After a quick search on YouTube, I found one that would do the trick and put it in my lesson plans for the next class:

The more I thought about the tutorial, the more I realized that some students would want to watch it more than once to solidify their understanding of the concept. I also loved that the related videos on YouTube could help students with this skill -- and I could help them find the tutorial easily if I just embedded the link on the rubric itself. Because we are not a 1:1 or BYOD school (yet), I knew that some of my students would be following the rubric from the hard copy and not the e-copy that they can find on my blog. That led me to goo.gl, where I created a shortened URL that isn't ridiculously annoying to copy into a browser. As I pasted the short link, I realized that I could quickly grab the automatically generated QR code from goo.gl and drop that into the rubric as well. Thus, my first interactive rubric was born!

There's Something About Simplicity

The whole thing sounds so ridiculously simple -- give students easy access to a resource that will help with a challenging skill. Not so groundbreaking, right? But sometimes it's the little things that can make a big difference with our students, and I hope this is one of those times.

While reviewing the assignment sheet in class, I pointed out the QR code to my students. I asked if someone would volunteer to scan it, and was delighted when a couple of students told me they already had. I believe that this bodes well. If they are already using the QR codes without prompting or instructions, we're off to a good start. Additionally, I have started reading through the papers, and so far quotation integration has been a strength rather than a struggle. This is not usually the case!

I am optimistic that interactive rubrics will soon become part of my normal routine, especially since the whole process took but a few minutes of my time.

Moving Forward

Below are a few ways that I can imagine any teacher, regardless of grade level or content area, using interactive rubrics:

1. Instead of linking to a tutorial, link to an online practice quiz on the concept you're assessing. This will allow students to review the concept and reinforce their understanding before submitting the assignment for which the rubric is designed.

2. Link to an online survey that allows students to submit questions about the assignment. This could encourage them to work ahead and ask questions that they might be too nervous to ask in class.

3. Link to a TodaysMeet room or other discussion forum that will allow students to collaboratively review concepts or ideas.

4. Link to a Google Doc with class discussion notes (I maintain a class doc for every novel we read, but often students forget to review it before an assessment).

5. Link to review games for whatever topic the section of the rubric assesses. For instance, if I were looking specifically for correct subject-verb agreement in this particular assignment, I could provide a link to this review game.

6. If the assessment is more factual in nature, link part of the rubric to the PPT or whatever vehicle was used to present the information to students at the beginning of the unit.

I hope this strategy will end up being one more tool in your never-ending bag of teacher tricks. How else can we design interactive rubrics that engage students? Let's discuss our ideas in the comments section below.

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By looking at the right data teachers and administrators can build strategies to improve instructions. See how you can integrate data carousels into your school to find the areas needing attention that will help teachers and students.

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Clipboards: A Tool for Informal Assessment

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Math coach Audra McPhillips uses a clipboard to take notes on her students’ progress. Audra explains how she assesses students’ understanding and uses her notes to inform future instruction.

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NCTE Position Statement on Formative Assessment

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Online Resources / Articles on Assessment

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Checking for Understanding: Formative Assessment Techniques for Your Classroom, 2nd Edition

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Classroom Assessment and Grading that Work

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Marzano Research | Formative Assessment & Standards-Based Grading

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Learn how to design, interpret, and systematically use three different types of formative assessments and how to track student progress and assign meaningful grades.

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Great Performances: Creating Classroom-Based Assessment Tasks, 2nd Edition

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