Welcome Cristina Heffernan: Adjunct instructor at WPI, ASSISTment Training Coordinator.

Welcome

Cristina Heffernan: Adjunct instructor at WPI, ASSISTment Training Coordinator.

Formative Assessment

Online

Funders

Teacher WIKI

Destination for information on ASSISTments

What is an ASSISTment?

Stories of Formative Assessment

The Formative Assessment Cycle

Objective

Lesson

AssessmentAssessment

The Cycle can move through two or three iterations depending on the situation.

Objective Lesson Objective

LessonAssessmentObjectiveLesson

Assessment

Assessment

Formal Definition

Formative assessment is a planned process in which assessment-elicited evidence of students’ status is used by teachers to adjust their ongoing instructional procedures or by students to adjust their current learning tactics.

W. James Popham 2008

Stories of Formative Assessment

MCAS Practice

Assessment

• Select MCAS Questions

Assessment


Make a Student Account

• I will make a teacher account and be your teacher.

• Load 53260

• You will then make a student account and be a student in my class.

• To get the full experience get the problem wrong.

MCAS Practice

Assessment


Objective

• This Depends on what is discovered in the data

Lesson

• The lesson comes from the system’s tutoring.

Lesson


Objective


MCAS Practice

Assessment


Objective


Lesson


Assessment

• Have students write what they learned from the tutoring

Assessment• Have students write what they learned from the

tutoring

Online Exit Card

Objective

• Find the side of a triangle using the Pythagorean Theorem

Lesson

• Use Connected Math Book

Assessment

• Three question Problem Set online on ASSISTment

Exploring Test Mode

• I will Load 6751• This is a problem set

made by a teacher.

• You will then go and do the problem on ASSISTment.




There were 43 students on this item report, not all are shown.

INCORRECTa2+b2 = c2

122+142 = x2

144 + 196 = x2

340= x2

18.44 = x

CORRECTa2+b2 = c2

122+x2 = 142

144 + x2 = 196x2 = 54x = 7.21

Online Exit Card

Objective

• Find the side of a triangle using the Pythagorean Theorem

Lesson

• Use Connected Math Book

Assessment


Objective

• Find the leg of a right triangle using the Pythagorean Theorem.

Lesson

• Discussed the different elements of the Pythagorean Theorem.

Mastery Learning

Objective

• Find Mean Median Mode Range from data in a Stem and Leaf Plot

Lesson

• Lessons in 7th Grade

Assessment

• Mastery Learning Questions on Mean Median, Mode and Range from Stem and Leaf plots

Exploring Mastery Learning

• I will Load 5918 Mastery Learning.

• I will also load a few more so you can see a few more examples.


• Get at least the first one wrong.

Mastery Learning

Objective


Lesson


Assessment


Objective


Lesson

• Tutoring in ASSIST-ment.

Lesson


Mastery Learning

Objective


Lesson


Assessment


Objective


Lesson


Assessment

• Students must work until they get 3 right in a row.

• Can give a static post test.

Assessment

• Students must work until they get 3 right in a row.

• Can give a static post test.

Essay Critique

Assessment

• Practice Pythagorean Theorem Skill with an MCAS Open Response Problem on ASSISTment

Assessment• Practice Pythagorean Theorem Skill with an

MCAS Open Response Problem on ASSISTment

Exploring Open Response

• I will Load 6288 Mastery Learning.

• When you are finished look around the folders.


Assessment• Practice Pythagorean Theorem Skill with an

MCAS Open Response Problem on ASSISTment

Essay Critique

Assessment

• Practice Pythagorean Theorem Skill with an MCAS Open Resonse Problem on ASSISTment

Lesson

• Selected 3 Student responses

• Students read them and graded them.

Objective

• Recognize that the diagonal of a square with side one unit is longer than one unit.

Lesson



Essay Critique

Lesson

• Class discussion of critiques.

Objective

• Recognize the diagonal of a square is not length 1

Assessment


Objective


Lesson



Assessment

• Read through the students grades and critiques of their fellow students explanations.

Lesson


Assessment


Objective


Essay Critique

Lesson


Assessment

• Quiz question that asked about length of diagonal.

Objective


Assessment


Objective


Lesson



Assessment


Assessment

• Quiz question that asked about length of diagonal.

Book Homework Online

Objective

• Students will be able to solve questions involving exponential functions.

Lesson

• Use CMP Book

Assessment

• Homework from the Book, with questions online.

• One question asks about linear equations.

Teacher Account

• Log out of your student account.

• Sign UP but as a teacher in your district.

• While you are waiting for everyone– Make a class.

– Load a problem set

– Go in as a student and play Student in your class.

– Go back look at the roster

– Go back and look at the item report

Homework was Page 13 # 22 and 23 Page 16 # 34

Assessment



From Connected Mathematics Project Page 16 of Growing Growing Growing.

Assessment



Book Homework Online

Objective

• Students will be able to solve questions involving exponential functions.

Lesson

• Use CMP Book

Assessment



Objective

• While studying exponential functions students will be able to answer questions about linear relationships.

• Read what is being asked carefully.

Lesson

• Discuss the linear equation question in class.

Assessment

• Next nights homework had multiple questions about comparing linear and exponential functions.

From Connected Mathematics Project Page 14 of Growing Growing Growing.

Assessment

• Next nights homework had multiple questions about comparing linear and exponential functions.

Homework was Page 14 – 17 # 24 – 30 and 35 - 38

What is next Give it a try!

• Develop a simple routine

• Work with a partner teacher so you can plan and trouble shoot together.

• I can come down on your first or second day to help out in the lab.

• Contact me at [email protected]

• Get the students involved in the data let them tell you what it tells the class to do next.

Teacher WIKI

Destination for information on ASSISTments

ASSISTment website

• How to make accounts for teachers and Students.

• WWW.ASSISTMENT.ORG

Partners Schools • Forest Grove Middle School Worcester • Oak Middle School • Millbury Jr./Sr. High School • Grafton Middle School • Burncoat Middle School Worcester • Leicester Middle School • Worcester Polytechnic Institute • Bancroft School • Wachusett High School • Pembroke Academy • Claremont Academy Worcester • South High Worcester• Sacajawea Middle School Montana

For more help with the ASSISTment System.

• Professor Neil Heffernan is leading a group of school districts on a i3 grant. If you want your district to get funding under this grant go to the information section of our WIKI and write us a letter.

• For more information contact Neil at [email protected]

WPI Faculty in Computer Science and

Learning Sciences and Technology

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Welcome Cristina Heffernan: Adjunct instructor at WPI, ASSISTment Training Coordinator.

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