Informal Assessment Week 4 Wrapping It Up Putting It All Together

Informal Assessment Other forms of Informal Assessment: Running records (typically done in reading) Observations Anecdotal notes Learning log Conference notes As you review these things you will evaluate the student’s performance and their progress and level of achievement will surface.

Informal Assessment If you desire to ascertain : a students level of preparedness Understand which children may require additional help or individualized learning plans. Determine the effectiveness of teaching and teaching strategies. Progress of students Type of informal assessment to use: Observation Anecdotal notes, observation Student portfolios, teacher journal, analysis of student’s work. Review student’s class work and homework

Informal Assessment Informal assessment is beneficial to educators because it allows the students to perform naturally and be in the least restrictive environment. This allows the students to perform at their highest level and can be done when the students are most comfortable. Informal assessment educators may also want to use rubrics to make it clear what they are looking for a gauge how they want to assess each area.

Informal Assessment Rubrics While rubrics essentially will produce a score, this score can be used to grade the students work or simply to show progress. Before creating a rubric first consider what the students goals were or will be in the activity, that way when assessing their skills the assessment will give a true picture of their skills and knowledge.

Informal Assessment Developing A Rubric 1. First decide what you want to assess and how you want to assess that. 2. Determine what dimensions and areas you need to use the rubric to assess 3. Put the dimensions in different areas and determine what needs to exist in each dimension. 4. Make it clear skills (or lack therein) receive which score. This will help you determine when a student should receive a certain score. 5. Once you have developed this much of the rubric test it out on students or yourself prior to officially using it for assessment. Make sure it assesses only what you want it to. 6. Revise the rubric if needed in order to make it more clear, concise or easier to use. This is also a good time to determine if you are assessing too many dimensions at once.

Informal Assessment Sample Rubric Creating a rubric for reading 1. I want to assess how well the students are developing in the reading process. 2. I want to assess the basic phonemic skills, comprehension, and fluency. 3. I want to specifically assess how they read vowels and consonants, if the make errors, if they understand what they are reading (comprehension), and how they are reading (fluency).

Informal Assessment Sample Rubric Reading Skill 1234 Vowels Does not know sounds knows 2 of 5 vowel sounds knows at least three vowel sounds knows all vowels sounds Consonants Does not know sounds knows at up to 50% of sounds knows 51-75% of sounds knows all consonant sounds Comprehension Does not understand Comprehension is minimal Comprehends the majority of material Comprehends completely Fluency Five or more miscues* 3-4 miscues 1-2 miscues No miscues

Quick Quiz 1. Name two other types of informal assessment mentioned in this lesson. 2. If you wanted to determine if your students learned the story of Nehemiah how would you assess that informally? 3. If you wanted to assess how students apply biblical concepts, what form of informal assessment would you use to view this? Would you also be able to use this to assess your teaching? 4. What a type of assessment used assess informal inquiries? 5. Why do you think a rubric is a great way to assess? Why is it unbeneficial? 6. Practice creating rubrics to assess students or yourself depending on your ministry desires.

Assignments for Week 4 1. Read PowerPoint notes 2. Read Ch Master’s students: Read additional pages and use Reading Report Form. 4. Take Week 4 Quiz 5. Write up: Do you believe that creating a rubric is beneficial in assessment? Why or why not? (This is also Journal 4 for online students.) 6. Continue working on writing assignment (see Week 9).

Informal Assessment Strategies Resources This website is an excellent resource for information on informal assessment strategies. This is a great book that would be very helpful in developing a stronger sense of informal assessment in a classroom. This would also be a great resource for a Sunday School teacher. Charlton, Beth Critchley. Informal Assessment Strategies: Asking Questions, Observing Students, Planning Lessons that Promote Successful Interaction with the Text. A Pembroke Title ISBN: