1. What's the Fewest? Some kids are playing hide and seek in a park where there are seven trees. One of the kids is “It,” and the others are all hiding behind trees. Of course, you can’t see them, because they’re hiding. See if you can figure out the fewest possible kids hiding, using the following information: A girl is hiding to the left of a boy. A boy is hiding to the left of a boy. Two boys are hiding to the right of a girl. STRATEGY: Draw a picture or diagram.

2. Answer The fewest kids hiding is 3. A girl is on the left; to her right is a boy; to his right is another boy. Now that I’ve got your brain started, welcome to our workshop on…

3. Classroom Assessment

4. What is Assessment? Assessment is an on-going process aimed at understanding and improving student learning. It involves making our expectations explicit and public; setting appropriate criteria and high standards for learning quality; systematically gathering, analyzing, and interpreting evidence to determine how well performance matches those expectations and standards; and using the resulting information to document, explain, and improve performance.

5. Why use Assessment? Student Outcomes Course Outlines Course Certificates WASC State Content Standards

6. Assessment answers these questions: How do you KNOW that your students are meeting student outcomes or curriculum standards? What PROOF do you have to support your grades, certificates, curriculum, lesson plans? What DRIVES your lesson plans or curriculum changes? What SUPPORTS your teaching strategies? What PROVIDES the data necessary to support funding for your programs?

7. What is Research Based Theory? Brain based research –http://www.designshare.com/Research/BrainBasedLearn98.htm Technology based learning –http://www.bie.org/research/index.php Project based learning –http://pblchecklist.4teachers.org/ Problem based learning –http://www.samford.edu/pbl/index.htmlhttp://www.samford.edu/pbl/index.html Service learning –http://www.learningindeed.org/research/slresearch/slrsrchsy.htmlhttp://www.learningindeed.org/research/slresearch/slrsrchsy.html Inquiry based learning –http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/

8. What does assessment look like? Tests –Multiple Choice –Essay –True / False Papers Rubrics Essays Homework But what about these…? Crossword puzzles Role plays Projects One minute summaries Learning style inventories Personality tests Instructional games Attitude surveys Concept tests Concept mapping Interviews Journals Class discussion

9. The reality of assessment Most teachers don’t realize that what they are currently doing in their classrooms IS assessment. Fine tuning these activities, and understanding research based learning positively affects student learning within your classroom.