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The Journey – Improving Writing Through Formative Assessment
Presented By:
Sarah McManus, Section Chief, Testing Policy & Operations
Phyllis Blue, Middle Grades English/Language Arts Consultant
Accountability ConferenceFebruary 11, 2008
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Where do we want to go?
Where are we now?
How do we close the gap?
In North Carolina…..
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Concern from the classroom?
Too much time spent on measuring the learning rather than promoting and helping learning to occur
Most summative assessments look like “mini state tests”
Forced to “teach to the test”Less motivated students
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Focus on teaching and learning.
• Clear Purpose
• Clear Targets
• Sound Design
• Effective Communication
• Student Involvement
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There is an emphasis on: • “The test”• State test results• Practice items• Alignment• Remediation
What is getting the most attention and what is getting left behind?
There is little emphasis on:• Student learning• Developing self-directed learners• Increasing student motivation• Delivering quality professional development for teachers
•content delivery•classroom assessment
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Classroom Assessment(Formative and Summative)
Interim/Benchmark Assessments (Summative)
Statewide Assessments (Summative)
Aligned to State Standards
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Support teachers in their efforts to use:• Increased commitment to a high-quality formative assessment
as a process.• Increase the use of descriptive feedback and reduce
evaluative feedback.• Increase student involvement in classroom assessment
(formative and summative).
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Focus on the Importance of Classroom Assessment
• Guides students’ judgment of what is important to learn• Affects their motivation and self perceptions of competence• Structures their approaches to and timing of personal study…• Consolidates learning• Affects the development of enduring learning strategies and
skills
“It appears to be the most potent force influencing education.”
Crooks (1988)
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Teachers use a variety of methods to assess what each student has
learned.
• Teachers use multiple indicators, including formative and summative assessment to evaluate student progress and growth.
• Teachers provide opportunities, methods, feedback, and tools for students to assess themselves and each other.
• Teachers use 21st Century assessment systems to inform instruction and demonstrate evidence of students’ 21st Century knowledge, skills, performance, and dispositions.
Standard IV: Teachers Facilitate Learning For Their Students
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BALANCED ASSESSMENT SYSTEM
FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT
A process used by teachers and students during instruction that provides immediate feedback to adjust ongoing teaching and learning to help students improve their achievement of intended instructional outcomes.
A tool used after instruction to measure student achievement which provides evidence of student competence or program effectiveness.
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FORMATIVE SUMMATIVE
•Occurs During Instruction•Not Graded•Process•Descriptive Feedback•Continuous•Students & parents are partners in the process•Assessment for learning
•Occurs at the end•Graded•Product•Evaluative Feedback•Periodic•Assessment of learning
COMPARISON OF ASSESSMENTS
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Possible Assessment Methods
Formative Assessment includes
• Questions• Classroom Discussions• Learning Activities• Feedback• Conferences• Interviews• Student Self-Assessment
Summative Assessment
• Selected Response
– Multiple Choice– True/False– Matching– Fill-in
• Extended Written Response
• Performance Assessment
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•Both formative and summative assessment are valuable and important
•Without both the classroom assessment system is not balanced
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Research
Research shows that if students are formatively assessed, learning will improve. When learning is improved, students are able to demonstrate that learning in a variety of ways including scoring well on standardized assessments like the EOG and EOC.
Black and Wiliam (1998)
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ProductsProducts
SkillsSkills
ReasoningReasoning
KnowledgeKnowledge
©Copyright Educational Testing Service/Assessment Training Institute
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Feedback
Frequently feedback is used to push students to “do more” or to “do better,” without being specific enough to help students know what to do. This type of
feedback is generally ineffective. (Hattie & Timperley, 2005)
Effective feedback points out successes and gives specific information about how to improve the performance or product.
(Black & Wiliam, 1998; Black, et al, 2002; Bloom, 1989; Brown, 1994)
When teachers substituted comments for grades, students engaged more productively in improving their work. (Black, et al, 2002)
Intensive correction, where the teacher marks every error in every paper a student writes, is completely useless. Marking all errors is no more
advantageous in terms of student growth than marking none of them. (Hillocks, 1986)
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Key Goals for Comment-Only Marking
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Goal #1
Only feedback leads to higher learning gains
than grades alone or grades with comments
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Goal #2
Focusing feedback (oral and written) on
success and improvement needs against
the learning target of the task leads to
students embedding their improvements
and applying them in subsequent work
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Goal #3
Students need time to make improvements
on their work
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Goal #4
Improvements should focus on either
1) Short-term improvement on the work marked, or
2) Longer-term targets
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Goal #5
Teachers should model feedback processes
aiming for maximum student control over
marking (self-monitoring).
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Descriptive FeedbackActivity
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Next steps…
• Join the Online Professional Development Community• Increased commitment to a high-quality formative
assessment as a process• Increase the use of descriptive feedback, reduce
evaluative feedback• Increase student involvement in the assessment process
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Thank you!!!!
Q & A
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Contact Information
Sarah McManus
Section Chief, Testing Policy and Operations
NC Department of Public Instruction
Accountability Services Division
Phyllis Blue
Middle Grades English/Language Arts Consultant
NC Department of Public Instruction