Analyzing Common Formative Assessments

ON TARGET 2 Today’s Learning Targets ✓ I can explain common formative assessments. ✓ I can identify quality common formative assessments. ✓ I can use common formative assessments to inform and direct PLC teams.

ON TARGET 3 From The Leadership and Learning Center, 2009 Why Formative Assessments? The Research Conclusions: Five reviews synthesizing 4000 research studies conducted over 40 years concluded: “When well-implemented, formative assessment can effectively double the speed of learning.” Dylan Wiliam, Educational Leadership, December 2007/ January 2008, p.36

ON TARGET 4 WHAT ARE WE EMPHASIZING? ASSESSMENT FOR LEARNING ASSESSMENT OF LEARNING Formative Summative

ON TARGET 5 DuFour, DuFour, Eaker, Many, 2010, p.63 An Assessment is Formative When… ‣ It identifies students struggling to learn a standard or target ‣ It gives students additional time and support to learn the standard or target ‣ Students receive reteaching, intervention, and enhancement

ON TARGET 6 Formative Assessment

ON TARGET 7 Formative Assessment

ON TARGET 8 What are Common Formative Assessments? ‣ Common - Given by all teachers on a grade level or in the same content area ‣ Formative - Provides data to inform and guide planning and instruction ‣ Assessment - Provides formative rather than summative information Cook & Negron, 2009

ON TARGET 9 Common Formative Assessments Criteria ‣ Develop in PLCs ‣ Align to unwrapped standards and learning targets ‣ Design collaboratively pre- and post- common formative assessments ‣ Create a rubric to establish criteria for proficiency ‣ Given by all teachers on a grade level or same content area ‣ Analyze results with PLC ‣ Reteach and provide intervention to promote student mastery of learning ‣ Enrich, extend, and enhance learning for students who demonstrate mastery ‣ Repeat the entire process Larry Ainsworth, Center for Performance Assessment, 2006

ON TARGET 10 Creating Common Formative Assessments

ON TARGET 11 Standards Based Criteria for Proficiency Intervention Data Analysis Enhancement

ON TARGET 12 Standards Based Criteria for Proficiency Data Analysis Intervention Enhancement

ON TARGET 13 Intervention Standards Based Criteria for Proficiency Data Analysis Enhancement