You are kindly requested to upload your respective reflections on the subject session attended on December 9th 2023 conducted by Ms. Madhavi Dutta.

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Purpose of assessment

To check knowledge, key concept, Atl skill

Types of assessment

We can assess them through

-Quiz

-Reflection

-Role play

-Model

-Presentation

-Research work

-Poster

-Experiment

-Pen and paper

Assessment

Monitoring :observations Documenting:Evidence

Measuring:Tools

Reporting:Parents, heads of the school and Educators.

Assessment should be differentiate and according to levelwise (school defines the level )

Emerging Developing Proficient Exemplary

Snehal E Naik

Clear  and specific – learning goals addressed, end expectations should be communicated to the students

Varied- various tools and strategies

Developmental – individual student progress.

Exemplars: Use previous years works as samples for kids to see and not make the same . Preserve the best work of the previous years learners. Includes notebooks too.

Conduct pen paper assessments regularly as knowledge is one of the element of PYP curriculum.

Giving feed back on learning is equally important.

Thanks,

Neha Doshi

She reiterated about the importance of feedback and feedforward. According to Ms. Madhavi both are important parts of an assessment as the learner should be aware of the gaps in the current learning and also what is needed to be done to fill the gaps to support the future learning.

Ms. Madhavi also enforced that it is important to assess learning at the following levels:-

1) Beginning of every unit (Pre- assessment) to know the level of the learners in the topic that is going to be taught.

2) During the unit (Formative) for checking the understanding of the content/skills/concepts in the topic that is being taught.

3) End of the unit (Summative) for checking the understanding of the content/skills/concepts of the topic that was taught.

Ms. Madhavi also gave a clear idea of the different ways by which each of the above assessments could be conducted.

The session was very informative and gave a deep understanding on the importance of conducting assessments and also keeping evidence of the assessments that are conducted.

Beuno Joseph

documenting,measuring and reporting were discussed

#approaches to assessment

-know what you want to assess

-focus to be on central idea and

LOI

-objective comes from scope and sequence

-tasks can be based on skills.

#criteria can be tagged with a checklist or turned into rubric with descriptors

# descriptors should not be opinion based it should be evidence based

#always use even points

#evidencing of assessment can be a combination of checklist,anecdote ,learner profile ,attributes, etc

#Assessment Tools should be chosen based on criteria

#Feedback is above and beyond criteria.

# descriptors should not be opinion based it should be evidence based

#criteria should always be outcome based

*Overall it was an informative and multifaceted session .

Lydia Vincent

• Initially she started with a small activity where we had to share our understanding of the term "ASSESSMENT" in context with what it sounds like? What it looks like? and what it feels like?

• Then she briefed us upon the Characteristics of Effective Assessment:

  1) It should be Authentic(giving possibilities to connect with the real world)

  2) It should be clear and specific(specifying desired learning goals and success criteria and expectations from learners)

  3) It should be varied (using various tools and strategies for enhancing learning)

  4) It should be Developmental(individual learners development should be focused)

  5) Collaborative Feedback and Feed forward(to know the drawbacks of current learning and support the future learning).

• She also mentioned about the process of Monitoring(which can be done through observatios, group assessment, individual assessment. Documenting(maintaining files,portfolios and report cards),Measuring(using various measuring tools), and Reporting(through one to one meet, conferences and report cards, PTM).

• Further she elaborated on Feedback & Feedforward by stating it's importance:1) one should take time to discuss the next step of learning, 2) Engage 1 lesson to give feedback and discuss the expectations from learners that we look for.

  3) Sharing practice if something works in one class and not in the other.

• She continued saying that Pre- Assessment is very important to check the prior knowledge in every unit to know the level of the learner. Only check list is enough for Pre assessment and no need for anecdotes. FA & SA should have checklist along with anecdotes.

• Turn learning engagements into assessment like (quiz, oral check, reflections, venn diagram, simple rubrics with YES & NO and even exit slips can be taken as one form assessment.

• Communicating learning requirements to the parents is very important to ensure 100% attendance.

• She stressed in the point that all educators are responsible for learning process and produced integrated assessments.

• Focus on writing skills

• In case of any oral assessment we need to maintain assessment sheet which should specify the Task, criteria and checklist. For every assessment there should be a document. For EYP she said one can do oral assessment and comment can be written by educators on what the child has reflected in her own.

• To describe the FA & SA in simple terms she showed us wonderful statement which said: When the cook tastes the soup it's FA and When the customer tastes the soup it's the SA.

• She also gave a clear picture of assessment strategies and the assessment tools to be used.

• In the end she even stressed on something called as GRASP for SAs. According to this SAs should be designed before planning the unit based on time( how many weeks available). SAs lead to actions so we need to choose which action is suitable for the unit and only than plan the SA.

• Create descriptors to ease the parents and avoid any confusion among them regarding their child's progress.

• In the end she showed us some examples of activities and asked us to share whether the same is a pre assessment, FA or SA.

• At last she had a conversation with some educators.

  Overall the session was very informative and explained in simple terms. I thank Ms. Madhavi Dutta for enlightening us on every detail of Assessments.

By Ms. Sneha Chougule

IB PYP Educator

-Later she explained us about Characteristics of effective assessment i.e

1.Continous improvement

2.Collaborative

3.Feed-back to feed-forward

4.Clear and specific

5.Authentic

in detail explanation and also it needs to be used in IB

-Moving ahead she explained about

4 parts of assessments

1.Monitoring-discussing, question, refection

2.Documenting-MLV, evidence of learning

3.Measuring

4.Reporting- Student led conference, reports, PTA, Report card.

___Purpose of assessment in PYP___

so that we can give and receive feedback

Assessment preparation should be done at the starting of the unit itself.

___She also elaborated on Criteria to be followed while preparing the assessments___

>Should have a clear task

>Should have a clear criteria

>Should have a tool

>No numerical marks or scores for grading.

Most importantly ,the assessment criteria in the tools should match the learning outcomes

-Also she mentioned that pre-assessment is very important to check the prior knowledge

-Needs to focus on writing skill.

-Also she gave a very simple explanation for FA and SA.

Overall session was very helpful

Ms. Pratima Fernandes

Ms. Sukanti

Thank you

Regards

Nishtha Garg

Learnt key characteristics of effective assessments. Got an idea about the purpose of assessments.Clarity got on different types of assessments.

A big thank you to Ms. Madhavi Dutta for conducting this session.

Ms. Sindu Hemanth

Assessment is essentially a continuous process that determines what areas teachers and students need to improve.

Goal of the evaluation: -

To assess important concepts, knowledge, and Alternative competence

Assessment types: -

We can evaluate them using: -

-Quiz

-Reflection

-Acting out roles

-Model

- Demonstration

- Research projects

-Poster

-Test

-Pen and paper assessments have to be differentiated and based on level (as determined by the school).

Bidyutparna Mukherjee

she also emphasized on few things like:

Assessment provides educators, parents, and families with critical information about a child’s development and growth. Assessment can:

• Provide a record of growth in all developmental areas: cognitive, physical/motor, language, social-emotional, and approaches to learning.

• Identify children who may need additional support and determine if there is a need for intervention or support services.

• Help educators plan individualized instruction for a child or for a group of children that are at the same stage of development. 

• Identify the strengths and weaknesses within a program and information on how well the program meets the goals and needs of the children.

• Provide a common ground between educators and parents or families to use in collaborating on a strategy to support their child.

DEBABRATA

Assessment should be recorded in whatever form it is and clearly shared it with the parents community .

Exemplars can used as the assessment tool.

Continuum tool is very effective form of assessing tool which learners can reflect on their learning .

Assessment criteria should be clear and differentiated .

1) Authentic

2)Clear and specific

3) Varied

4)Developmental

5)Collaborative

6)Interactive

7)Feedback and feedforward

• Next she spoke about 4 strategies of assessment-Inquiry into learning

• She also share different purpose of assessment, that includes Purpose, Culture, Learning and Environment.

• She also shared the GRASP strategy of assessing

  G-Goal, Challenge, Purpose

  R- Role or responsibility

  A- audience

  S- situation or Scenario

  P- Product or performance

  S- Standards/ expectations

By Ms Vedha Naik, PYP HRE Grade 5

Thank You.

sounds like a great idea

looks like a checklist.

2.Characteristics of an effective assessment- must give learners an oportunity to connect to the real world, should be authentic, developmental, collaborative and interactive.

3.monitoring, measuring, documenting. reporting.

4.Exit slips/ oral quizzes can also be formatives.

5. Selected response task.

The Feedback is very important for the learner to improve. Just conducting the assessment without feedback is worthless.

Assessment before the unit, during the unit and after the unit is important to assess the level of understanding and go forward with our unit.

Select the rubrics appropriately.

The rubrics can be printed on the worksheet itself.

There can be different assessment tools like- Quiz, debate, pen and paper, diagram, graphic organizer, mind map, etc.,

Formatives and summative have to be conducted regularly.

- Ms. Soundra Roseline

Assessment is necessary to check the level of the child.

Characteristics mentioned below

1. It has to be Authentic.

2. Clear and Specific

3. Varied

4. Collaborative

5. Feedback to feed-forward

   It can be done in different ways

   a.Monitoring

   b. Documenting

   c. Measuring

   d. Reporting

   Reassessment is important

   Formative- is an Ongoing Process

   Summative is a Pr-learning Process

   Thank you

   Sanjana Gad

Characteristics of effective assessment:

It should be authentic.

Clear and specific where in learning goals, success criteria needs to be mentioned.

Varied- It should have wide variety of tools.

Development- it should measure individual learners progress.

Collaborative- It should engage an educator as well as a learner.

It should be interactive.

Feedback and feedforward should be given to the learner.

What should be assessed?

Knowledge, key concepts and ATL skills

Purpose of assessment in PYP

Feedback- Learners need to be told about their current state where they have gone wrong.

Feedforward- Future state

-If pre-assessment is not done then we will not know where a learner is standing.

-Timeline for summative assessment should be planned.

-I can statements can be included as in a checklist format for formative assessments.

• Exemplars- should be shown of a previous years learners best work and not of a current years learner.

It should be clear ,authentic with evidence.

She explained part of assessment-

1.Monitoring 2.Documenting

3.Measuring 4.Reporting

There can be different assessment tools like

1. Pen Paper, Role play, mind map, quiz,

   Poster etc.

   Ms. Neena Katoch

The session was very interesting. I got more information about assessment.

Ma'am share different tools of assessment:-

1)Paper -pen

2)Role play

3)Projects

4)Mind map

Ma'am share characteristics of effective assessment:-

1)clear and specific

2) collaborative

3)varied

Ma'am also share that beginning of the unit educators has to decide how many assessment he/she wants to take for that particular unit.

Overall session was very informative and helpful.

MS. Yogita Shetkar

Characteristics of assessment

1. Authentic

2. Clear & specific

3. Varied

4. Developmental

5. Collaborative

6. Interactive

7. Feedback to feed forward

Evidancing learning

1. Monitoring learning- observat,questioning,reflection eyc

2. Documenting learning - portfolio, documents

3. Measuring -tools for measuring

4. Reporting -MLV,parent conference,reports,learning progression

Criteria to be followed for preparing the assessment

1. Should have clear task

2. Should have clear criteria

3. Use various tools to assess

4. Criteria should match with learnerning outcome.

Harsha Naik

PYP Educator

This session was very much informative.maam shared different tools of assessment:-

1) pen paper

2)mind map

3) Role play

Checklist to follow criteria while preparing the assessment:-

1) voice recording

2) should have a clear criteria

3) writing reflection

4) criteria should match with learning outcome.

By Samedha Surlikar

Characteristics of effective assessment-

• It should be authentic.

• clear and specific

• Varied

• Developemental

• Collaborative

• InteractiveInteractive

• Feedback to feed forward

  
  

  Four types of Assessment-

  1. Monitoring

  2. Documenting

  3. Measuring

  4. Reporting

     Purpose of Assessment in PYP

     1. Giving and receiving feedback

     2. Feed forward

     3. pre- assessment

        
        

        Assessment can be taken as-

        
        

        FA's can be- exit slips, Venn diagram, notebook checking, mind maps, spellings and definition, oral presentation

        
        

        Akshata Chipkar

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Session was too good where ma'am has explained regarding meaning of Assessment which tell us that how it should be conducted in different ways like

Test level of leaner, pen &paper and evidence etc . Later she has discussed about characterstic of effects assessment clear & specific , varied, development, interactive, authentic.

What - knowledge skills and conceptual understanding

How - Tools & strategy to monitor learning.

Also learn purpose of Assessment .

Feedback & Feedforward .

Ma'am has also throw light on pre- assessment ( Beginning of every unit ) finding out

KWI, charts , pre - test, pen and paper test, development learning goals , small group discussion based on questions, concept map , anticipation guide ( agree / disagree ) Formative during the unit .

Summative end of the unit

EYP -- oral assessment ( recording - evidence )

Criteria and exemplars .

Collaborative assessment and last she discussed on discussion points . Also convience to students and parents .

Thank you ,

Vijaya Naik .

Namaste all

Session was to good what is my takeover from this session is that assessment feel like ,sounds like, looks like . She has also discussed characteristics of effective assessment

Purposes of assessment

Pre assessment beginning of every unit

Formative and summative end of the unit and beginning of the unit

She also elaborates on criteria to be followed while preparing the assessment .she also explains collaborated assessment

Discussions

How to convince parents and students

Thank you

Subit

Assessment is a continuous process for an individual the word assessment feels like one assessment is not enough.

It sounds like an exam or test.

Assessment looks like it's a reflection of our understanding.

Assessment can be done in various ways like Quiz, poster, roleplays, reflection writing on the activities, etc. It is just to to know and understand how much the child has understood certain concept it very important to have an assessment.

The purpose of assessment

-Monitoring learning

-Documentary learning

-measuring

-Reporting

She also told the difference between FA and SA and how we can do that in different way.

Assessment can encourage learners to take responsibility and know how they have learnt and need to improve. It can be also done by giving and receiving feedback. Peer checking can also help. It is very important for a learner to understand the concept before doing the self assessment test. Ma'am also told that it is very important to pre- assessment to check the prior knowledge of the learners. It was an informative and wonderful session where ma'am explained everything in detail.

Pritika Kudnekar

From this session my takeover is that assessment means pen and paper, test level of the learners.

Ma'am also discussed characteristics of effective assessment for eg.real world, clear and specific, collaborative, interective and develpamental. Also I understood the purpose of assessment that is giving and receiving feedback. Ma'am also discussed about pre assessment i.e beginning of every unit which includes formative and summative assessment. Ma'am also discussed criteria and also I understood meaning of collaborate assessment.

Thank you

Gayatri Gawas

Gardening educator

She spoke about importance of feedback and feed forward.

Assessment should be authentic,clear and specific with learning g goals , end expectations should be communicated to the learners.

FA and SA should be conducted regularly.