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Maree Whiteley
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one of the most powerful means of challenging students to think of what they already know is by using a problematic scenario. Such a scenario is usually a complex, ill-structured situation that embeds within it significant curricular concepts that stimulates inquiry at the beginning of a unit and can be used as one of the summative assessments
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The sample assessment activities show a range of approaches to assessment. Each activity includes the curriculum planning processes, that show how teachers derived the learning experiences from the evidence of learning (the achievement standards)marking guidelines that illustrate how teachers have considered up front how they will determine how well students have attained the desired understandings and skills and teacher reflections that provide a personal perspective of the task
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The Judging Standards Assessment and Reporting tools and sample Assessment Tasks, support a range of WA Curriculum Learning Areas. Together with the Achievement Standards, the Judging Standards suite of resources, provide a good starting point for designing differentiated tasks across all Learning Areas.
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Could a standard set of rubrics be used to assess in-class student work for cross-cutting skills like writing, critical thinking, problem-solving and quantitative analysis?
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'The important thing here is it’s authentic work and not just teaching to the test'.
Although this a tertiary level pilot study, the implications for K-12 school-based assessment are just as relevant and important for interdisciplinary pedagogical approaches such as Project-based Learning, Inquiry and STEM. First, they set out to define the essential learning outcomes that faculty, employers and accreditors saw as important. They settled on 16 qualities, some of which are: critical thinking, writing, quantitative literacy, oral communication, ethics, teamwork, intercultural understanding, and integrating learning from one area to another.
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Brilliant infographic to assist teachers assess prior learning at the start of a new topic...
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If you have a child in secondary school in Australia, you are probably familiar with assessment task sheets. They outline the task a student has t
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Assessment tasks are invitations for students to create a performance to show others what they know. Yet for many students these days, the complexity of the invitation can lead them to give up before they even start. It is a growing problem as assessment task sheets become increasingly complicated documents.
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26 Strategies
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The step-by-step approach here unpacks assessment very clearly..."To assess learning we have to make it visible by questioning it through oral or written questions that are constructed to accurately evaluate the quality of the learning. However, assessing the quality of learning is problematic because there are stages to the learning process..."
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Short, sharp tasks to check point assessment of student progress, allowing for feedback and plan future instruction.
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Socrative empowers you to engage and assess your students as learning happens. Through the use of real-time questioning, result aggregation, and visualization, you have instant insight into levels of understanding so you can use class time to better collaborate and grow as a community of learners
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Got ipads in your classroom? This looks like a great way to engage and assess yur students...as learning happens! What's not to like about that?
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Archive of the conversations about Assessment AS Learning #plearnchat that got better and better as the hour went on.
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Great Twitter chat about so many aspects of Assessment for Personalised Learning...real teachers, talking about real issues. Sharing ideas and great resources. Thanks to #plearnchat
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When we make learning visible, teachers and students are better able to assess their impact.These six strategies will get you started.
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Evidence captured as learning happens...How do we distinguish knowledge, skills, and thinking from….learning? How do we make learning visible, so that we might surface and document powerful discoveries about the influence of our teaching on learners?
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Looking for tools and strategies for effective assessment in project-based learning? To support you, we've assembled this guide to helpful resources from Edutopia and beyond.
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Great collection of assessment strategies to assess critical thinking through Project-based learning via Edutopia
Rodrigo Andres Montoya Gallego's curator insight,
October 20, 2020 7:05 PM
I read evaluation within project-based learning and it is very interesting how teachers makes certain assessment parts in this methodology. It is really curious that not all the emphasis is made on the final result, but the teachers take into account different assessment durinng the whole process. It is important to mention that not only students receive feedback from their teachers, but also from the audience and their classmates.
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Very useful visual to remind us of the difference between Formative and Summative Assessments...
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October 20, 2020 4:29 PM
This contrastive chart show us the difference between formative and summative assessment. It is important for novice teacher to have these differences in mind. In nowadays, the educational system are only focused in summative assessment taking aside the formative one. Even novice teachers are not aware of how to implement formative assessment in their classes and this document provides clear examples of both of them.
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The ten principles of assessment for learning to guide classroom practice identified by the Assessment Reform Group [2002]:
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A concise list of what 'Assessment FOR Learning' is really all about. This list sits well with research about Learning Intentions and developing a Success Criteria in your classroom...
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Have you used Improve?
It's a great assessment tool for gathering meaningful data.
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This classroom guide is intended to inspire and expand your thinking about effective assessment for project-based learning.
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What we can learn from different kinds of assessment from around the world, other sectors and other mindsets
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And so we keep talking about this...'There is a growing sense that most public examinations, especially in secondary education, don’t examine the right things. The wider capabilities and dispositions wanted by employers such as creativity and collaborative problem solving are largely absent.'
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Like a chef needs to check a sauce for taste, teachers should check for understanding. These can be formal or informal, fast or slow, simple or complex.
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What does Assessment look like, feel like, sound like in your classroom? 'Rather than focusing on the design of assessment, we could instead focus on a climate of assessment–a classroom where snapshots of understanding are taken frequently and naturally, without the stress of performance for the student, or the burden of huge, unmanageable data results for the teachers.'
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The Assessment for Learning website developed by Education Services Australia (ESA) provides web-based professional learning resources for teachers. Assessment theory and practical activities around the key strategies for formative assessment support teachers to develop...
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Something here for all teachers, all learning areas...
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Assessment Triangles - student feedback on your lessons.
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Rubrics take many different forms. Some rubrics describe only three levels of performance; others have more. Sometimes the terminology used to describe the various parts of the rubric will differ. None of this really matters. The important thing is that the purpose of the rubric remains the same: it is used to make
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Assessment for Learning resources from Education Services Australia (ESA)
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October 17, 2020 7:20 PM
This document is really important for novice teachers. It presents the step by step of how to design a rubric beginning with a clear purpose or the objectives that you will be the focus on the activity proposed. Furthermore, it provides keywords to help you when writing each descriptor. In fact, it is very helpful for novice teachers who do not know how to measure students' performance during an activity, oral presentation, or written paper.
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Below are links to assessment tools and techniques along with specific geoscience examples and resources. Concept Maps - A diagramming technique for assessing how well students see the "big picture". ...
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Observing your students... a great range of graphic organisers to assess 'learning in action'.
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Project based learning, a model that has definitely struck a chord with modern education system, is a fine tuned learning model that will address major learning issues. When you have group learning, you will see that both individual as well as group learning needs are fulfilled, and both the group and individual learn the subject matter and gain knowledge. It is highly important to consider assessment when you are training students using this model for furthering their education needs and standards.
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While individual learning can be easily assess, there are many issues in assessing a project based learning. You will need to recognize if the group and individual have accomplished all that they needed to in the process of learning through the project they have collectively worked upon. Here is a very realistic outline of the issues involved in assessing PBL...
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February 6, 2015 6:31 AM
How do you feel about the use of PBL in education?
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The iPad is a great tool for accessing and creating content. Teachers can also use this device to collect and organize student work. Here are a few ways you can turn your iPad into an assessment ...
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Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck’s work on growth mindsets has dominated much of the attention around how students can influence their own learning. But there are other ways to help students tap into their own motivation, too. Here are a few other important mindsets to consider.
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Developing a culture of learning...beyond assessment OF learning and grades focus.
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Through alternative formative assessment, teachers can check for student understanding without falling back on the tedious or intimidating pop quiz.
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Some very useful tips for assessing student understanding using Formative Assessment strategies...
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"Designed as summative assessments, these scenarios serve as diagnostics at the commencement of a unit and they empower students when we use some of their questions to supplement our own lines of inquiry. Problematic scenarios can, therefore, serve as pre-assessments of students’ prior knowledge through the kinds of number of questions they ask" John Barell (morecuriousminds.com)