FORMATIVE AND SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENTINCLUDE DC 2013 – 4/30/14 WebinarDC Special Education Co-operative
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• Formative assessments are a chance to give meaningful feedback early on in the learning process
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Characteristics of Assessments
Formative
• Part of the instructional process
• Provides teacher with information that can be used to adjust teaching practices
• Provides students with information about their own learning
• Focuses on the “big idea” instead of memorization of content
Summative
• Given at a pre-determined time, usually at the end of a unit or semester
• A measure of accountability for schools/teachers
• Measures what a student does and does not know at a particular point in time
• May look for content, concept and skills mastery
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Purpose of Assessment
Formative
• To inform teaching practices
• To gauge student learning and understanding
Summative
• To identify student proficiency in relation to teaching standards
• To identify the effectiveness of specific programs or curriculum
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Examples
Formative
• Small group discussion• Teacher questioning• Journals or response logs• Exit cards/exit tickets• Games (teacher observes
play behavior)• Short quizzes• Thumbs up Thumbs down• drawings
Summative
• Chapter tests• Unit tests• District or school
benchmark assessments• State assessments for
AYP (DC-CAS)• Portfolio Assessment
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Why use Formative Assessment in a UDL classroom?
• You know where students are so you can meet them there and modify your teaching strategies
• You can see where misconceptions are happening and quickly clarify for students before moving forward
• You can see where your teaching fell short before the unit is over
• Students become more invested in their learning• Formative assessments are easily differentiated for
different learners
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Summative Assessment in a UDL classroom
• Accommodations may be necessary to make sure you are testing the right thing!• Extended time, break into small sections, open book/notes,
calculators, word banks, multiple choice• Ex: If you are testing for content specific knowledge then it’s ok to
read questions and related text to a very low reader
• Portfolio• Student selected work• Various types of work products• Multiple opportunities for students to demonstrate mastery
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Its Never Too LateWhat do you do if half of your students fail an assessment?
• If the majority of your students aren’t getting it, you probably shouldn’t be moving on.
• Assume that some re-teaching needs to be done.• Look for trends – where are most students getting
incorrect answers?• Many times it can be determined that common concepts
have been missed among students.
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Formative Assessment resources
Article on using formative in the classroom from the Association for Middle Level Education: http://www.amle.org/Publications/MiddleSchoolJournal/Articles/March2006/Article7/tabid/722/Default.aspx
Sample chart of assessment strategies from Illinois State Board of Education: http://www.isbe.net/common_core/pdf/da-form-asmt-chart.pdf
Another list of formative assessment/engagement strategies from the American Federation of Teachers:http://www.aft.org/pdfs/teachers/teach11materials/t11_providingh3.pdf
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56 Formative Assessment Strategies• https://
docs.google.com/a/specialedcoop.org/presentation/d/1nzhdnyMQmio5lNT75ITB45rHyLISHEEHZlHTWJRqLmQ/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000&slide=id.g583166bc_1_34
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Food For Thought• When thinking about pacing for the DC-CAS or other
forms of State Assessment:
• Is it better for students to have had the opportunity to master 80% of the content well than to have “taught” all of the standards and have students only master 50% of it?
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60 Student Centered Teaching Strategies
• https://www.facinghistory.org/for-educators/educator-resources/teaching-strategies
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Unit Plan/or Modifications and Accommodations Tool Due December 16th.
-I will e-mail everyone the Unit Plan template by COB tomorrow.- Being that You have a choice in assignments ( and I am eliminating one), I am expecting these to be ON TIME AND AWESOME!! NO EXCUSES!!!
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