1. Media Project 4 Assessment and Learning
Prepared by
Yetunde Bodude
Fall 2015

2. HOW CAN ASSESSMENT SUPPORT LEARNING

3. Assessment
Activities undertaken by teachers and their students in assessing themselves, which provides information used as a feedback to modify teaching and learning activities

4. Types of Assessments
Summative
Formative
Pre-Assessment
Feedback

5. Pre-Assessment
Determines what the student knows and does not about a topic or concept
Determines student’s learning style or preferences
Used to tell how well a student can perform a certain set of skills related to the subject/topic/concept
Done at the beginning of a unit of study
Used to inform of instruction
Serves as initial phase for assessment for learning

6. Formative Used during teaching and learning process
Determines student’s knowledge and skills as unit of study progresses
Determines learning gaps as unit of study progresses
Used to inform instruction and guide learning
Serves as the subsequent phase for assessment for learning

7. Summative Done at the end of a unit of study
Helps to determine level of understanding achieved by student on taught concept
Includes a mark or grade against an expected standard
Used to tell how well a student can perform a certain set of skills related to the subject/topic/concept
Done at the beginning of a unit of study
Used to inform of instruction

8. Feedback Be based on evidence of student understanding
Be integrated into regular classroom practice
Yield actionable insights that students can and will use
Provide students with opportunities to improve performance
Give enough information to enable students perform required corrections on classroom tasks
Focus on what, how and why of a problem
Provide suggestions on how improvement on quality of work can be achieved

9. Assessment that Supports Learning Comprehensive Assessment
Process of eliciting evidence of student’s understanding and adapting instruction to increase rate of learning
Integrated into regular classroom practice

10. Key Steps of Comprehensive Assessment
Set challenging, meaningful learning goals
Provide students with multifaceted criteria defining success
Use evidence of students’ understanding to provide actionable feedback throughout learning process
Motivate students to improve performance

11. Assessment Approaches That Supports Learning
Class discussion: reveals students’ level of understanding, reasoning processes, questions, and misconceptions which help inform instruction during discussion and future lessons
Differentiated learning: involves tailoring formats, activities, and assessments that can be used to learn and show mastery of a concept to students' abilities, needs, and interests.

12. Assessment Approaches That Supports Learning..(contd.)
Response to Intervention: incorporates differentiated instruction and provides 3-level of increasing intense support based on students’ performances on benchmark assessment.
Data-driven instruction: collecting, interpreting, and dissemination of data to improve instructional decision-making in coordinated effort. Data is used to inform decision-making, set goals, prioritize and make intervention plans.

13. Assessment Approaches That Supports Learning..(contd.)
Self-assessment: engages the student in applying given criteria to analyze and improve own work. Improves student performance and helps them to self correct.
Peer assessment: engages students in analyzing one another’s work against set criteria. Helps improve the performance of the student assessing and the student being assessed.

14. Conclusion
Assessment is done to create self-regulated learners who can leave school able to learn through out life. Assessment can be used to achieve this and support learning by applying the steps for a comprehensive assessment program as detailed above. This will not only improve learning but also increase students’ motivation, self-confidence, self-efficacy and overall success of teaching and learning

15. References
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Vega, V. (2014, January 29). Comprehensive assessment research review: Providing feedback. Retrieved November 3, 2015, from Edutopia:
Wikipedia. (2015, November 3). Assessment for learning. Retrieved from Wikipedia.org: