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Middle School

2. Results from Workshop Live Survey

3. Formative Assessments Summative Assessments
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Formative Assessments
Summative Assessments

4. What do we assess? What we DON’T Assess What we DO Assess
How well a student can organize their work*
How well they behaved in class
Learning and mastery aligned to the curriculum standards
Demonstration of skills outlined in the curriculum

5. What do we grade? Not Graded Graded
Work the teacher walks the student through
Practice for the sake of practice
The first time a student attempts a skill
Work the student does independently or with only moderate support
Practice done with the purpose of seeing where a student is (a checkpoint)

6. If everything is an assessment, then what is Assessment (80%) and what is Classwork (10%)?
Practice
Done with support
A check in for learning
A cumulative checkpoint in student learning
Done independently
A measure of student learning

7. Results from Workshop Live Survey

8. Get your phones out

9. The purpose of assessing
For the Teacher
For the Student
Identify:
Gaps
Confusions
What students can/can’t do
Informs the teacher what to do next
Provide feedback
Reflect on their work
Decide on next steps
Think about their own learning
Take responsibility for their own learning

10. Using Assessments
Washback – review the results of the assessment to make sure the questions were valid and reliable
Adjust instruction based on the results
Provide support/reteaching/intervention for struggling students
Provide specific/descriptive feedback to students with insights into what areas they need to improve

11. Designing an assessment
Should not be something the student has never seen before
Should be aligned to the content taught and curriculum standards
Should have two pieces:
Knowledge assessment: ability to show what you know (quizzes, tests, essays, reports, etc…)
Application (performance task): show and demonstrate what you can do (presentation, projects, research project/paper, demonstration, etc…)

12. How well is your assessment aligned to standards?
Look through your questions and your content area standards.
Rate each question:
0 – not aligned to the standards at all
1 – somewhat aligned, on topic, but not right skills set
2 – pretty well aligned, may ask to do a little less or a little more than the standard asks
3 – very well aligned, asks for students to demonstrate the right level of mastery
Put down the standard number it is aligned with if applicable

13. How well is your assessment aligned to PARCC?
Look through your questions and your content area PARCC questions.
Rate each question:
 – does not look anything like a PARCC question/task
 – looks similar to a PARCC question/task, but the wording could be better
 – looks lust like a PARCC question/task
Look over your whole assessment, does it include the wide variety of PARCC type questions?

14. Next Steps/Take Aways?