Assessment Design Essential Question Key Understandings Should all assessments be designed in the same manner? Decide learning targets to be assessed. Determine appropriate assessment methods. Distinguish if the assessment methods are the best fit for the learning targets being assessed.

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Quality Tasks & Questions Sampling Quality Assessment Design Assessment Method Quality Tasks & Questions Sampling Bias & Distortions Self-assess These are the five component to a quality assessment design

Quality Tasks & Questions Sampling Bias & Distortions Are questions, exercises and tools written well? Is there enough evidence to truly measure student achievement? Is there potential for measures of student achievement to be distorted? Assessment Method Self-assess Does the method of assessment match / reflect the learning target(s)? Can students use results to reflect and set goals?

Assessment Method What types of learning targets are being assessed? What are the assessment methods used? Are the assessment methods the best fit for the learning targets being assessed?

Building and Using Common Assessments: A Professional Development Series Matching the Assessment Methods to the Learning Targets michiganassessmentconsortium.org

Knowledge Learning Targets Description Key Words Factual information, procedural knowledge and conceptual understanding students are wanted to know. Explain Understand Describe Identify Tell Name List Define Label Match Choose Recall Recognize Select

Reasoning Learning Targets Description Key Words Thought processes students are to learn to do well; students use what they know; students reason, think critically, solve problems, etc.   Analyze: components, parts, ingredients, logical sequence, steps, main idea, supporting details, determine, dissect , examine, order Compare/contrast: discriminate between; alike and different, distinguish between, similarities and differences, juxtapose Synthesize: combine into, blend, formulate, organize, adapt, modify Classify: categorize, sort, group, give examples Infer/deduce: interpret, implications, draw conclusions, predict Evaluate: justify, support opinion, think critically, appraise, critique, debate, defend, dispute, evaluate, judge, prove

Skills Learning Targets Description Key Words Students use knowledge and reasoning to act skillfully; a demonstration of physical skill-based performance at the heart of the learning.   Observe Focus attention Listen Perform Do Question Conduct work Read Speak Assemble Operate Use Demonstrate Measure Investigate Model Collect Dramatize

Product Learning Targets Description Key Words Students use knowledge, reasoning, and skills to create a concrete produce a product; artifacts; specifications for qualities of the product itself are the focus of teaching and assessing. Design Produce Create Develop Make Write Draw Represent Display Model Construct

Assessment Methods Building and Using Common Assessments: A Professional Development Series Matching the Assessment Methods to the Learning Targets michiganassessmentconsortium.org

Type of learning target Confidence that what you are assessing is what you wanted your students to know and be able to do as a result of the learning process. Method of assessment = Type of learning target Building and Using Common Assessments: A Professional Development Series Matching the Assessment Methods to the Learning Targets michiganassessmentconsortium.org

How well does each method of assessment match each type of learning target? Good Partial Not

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Method of Assessment = Type of Learning Target

“If you don’t know where you are headed, you’ll probably end up someplace else.” -Douglas J. Eder, Ph.D

The one best thing you learned or experienced this session that will help you in your next assessment cycle. Keep The one thing that you feel you need to develop from today’s session in order to do better in your next assessment cycle. Grow The one thing you need to do differently. Change