22 Easy Formative Assessment Techniques for Measuring Student Learning. I came across Terry Heick’s blog – 10 Assessments You Can Perform In 90 Seconds – at TeachThought from earlier this year and really enjoyed the formative assessment strategies that he outlined. Using formative assessment techniques in class – or “simple assessments” as Terry calls them – are easy to administer and provide the instant feedback teachers need to identify which students need more help, and then adjust their instruction and lesson plans to help them. Visit Terry’s blog above to get more detail on the following ten formative assessment techniques: 1. New Clothes 2. Do’s and Don’ts 3. Three Most Common Misunderstandings 4. Yes/No Chart 5. Combining Terry’s ten with the ten we’ve blogged about can give teachers 20 great formative assessment strategies for measuring student learning. 11. Here are a couple more assessments you can use to elicit evidence of student learning. 21. 22. Do you have a favorite?
Dissecting Formative Assessment – Post Two. In our first post in this series, we mentioned the five strategies that Dylan Wiliam has identified as core to successful formative assessment practice in the classroom. To recap they are: 1. Clarifying, sharing, and understanding learning intentions and criteria for success 2. Engineering effective classroom discussions, activities, and learning tasks that elicit evidence of learning 3. 4. 5.
Our first post dissected the first strategy – clarifying, sharing and understanding learning intentions and criteria for success. In general, many classroom discussions consist of lower-order questions (closed end questions, yes/no questions) which are answered by a few motivated students. . + 54% were managerial – What are you working on now? + 38% were lower-order thinking – What is war? + 8% were higher-order thinking – How might life be different if peace were declared in the Middle East? + asking higher-order questions, + collecting responses simultaneously from all students… Dissecting Formative Assessment - Post One. Dylan Wiliam has identified five strategies that he has come to believe are core to successful formative assessment practice in the classroom.
Over the next five formative assessment blog posts, we’ll break each strategy down for better understanding of how it fits into the big picture of formative assessment. First, here are his five strategies: 1. Clarifying, sharing, and understanding learning intentions and criteria for success 2. 3. 4. 5. This blog will cover the first of the five strategies – clarifying, sharing, and understanding learning intentions and the criteria for success. Setting expectations is crucial in so many aspects of life, whether on the job, on the playing field, or in the classroom. In 2000, C.A. Clarifying, sharing, and understanding learning intentions and what creates success transcends teachers, students and peers.
Another Student-Involved Assessment Experiment [ACTIVITY] Why Formative Assessments Matter. Summative assessments, or high stakes tests and projects, are what the eagle eye of our profession is fixated on right now, so teachers often find themselves in the tough position of racing, racing, racing through curriculum. But what about informal or formative assessments? Are we putting enough effort into these? What Are They? Informal, or formative assessments are about checking for understanding in an effective way in order to guide instruction. They are used during instruction rather than at the end of a unit or course of study. And if we use them correctly, and often, yes, there is a chance instruction will slow when we discover we need to re-teach or review material the students wholly "did not get" -- and that's okay.
What this means is that if we are about getting to the end, we may lose our audience, the students. We are all guilty of this one -- the ultimate teacher copout: "Are there any questions, students? " To Inform, Not Punish When and How? Exit Slips Student Checklist.