Assessment for Learning

Assessment for Learning

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Learning Intentions

Explain the difference between Assessment for Learning and Assessment of Learning

Discuss the importance of Assessment for Learning

Create Assessment for Learning activities for your lessons

Watch the video clip. Write down two examples of assessment for learningWrite down two examples of assessment of learning?

How can we assess our students?

Assessment for Learning vs Assessment of Learning

Introduction

• Assessment for learning is also known as formative assessment
• The practice stage of assessment
• Informs your teaching
• Where the learner is now?
• Where the learning is going?
• How is the learner going to get there?

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Assessment for Learning

Watch the video clip. How often should we as teachers, be formatively assessing our students?What is the impact if we do not formally assess our students?

The importance of Formative Assessment

Dylan Williams - Formative Assessment

How to use formative assessment

Watch the video of Formative Assessment ExamplesConsider the following questions:

• What is the impact of using mini whiteboards with the whole class?
• What skills do learners develop doing Think Pair Share?
• How do master teachers use formative assessment?

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Questioning

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Watch the video

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Consider the following questions:

• What should a teacher not do when asking a question?
• What is meant by the 'wait time' when asking questions?
• How can you ensure full class participation when questioning?

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What do they know?

• Activating Prior Knowledge
• Linking ideas to previous learning
• Retrieving information from previous learning
• Giving students ownership of their learning

Formative Assessment at the Start of the lesson

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The Lesson Sat Nav

• Formative assessment is a continuous review of the lesson
• After each new topic/concept/learning intention, use formative assessment to answer "Do we move on? Or do we re-teach?"
• Fun, expected by the students, and fast-paced.
• It is not about having a Kahoot Quiz or similar every 10 minutes.
• Keep the formats varied, but also repeat them to develop the students skill in that formative assessment

Formative assessment during the lesson

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Exit Tickets

• Reflective on the todays lesson

• Minimal Prep
• Holds students accountable
• Keeps students engaged
• Allows students to ask questions
• Self-assessment.

• Not formally marked
• Guides instruction for the next lesson

Formative assessment at the end of the session

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Formative Assessment Quiz

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Formative assessment is used only at the end of a teaching session, while summative assessment are completed once all learning content has been delivered

Formative assessment is continuous within the classroom while summative assessment is more formal and closes down a unit of learning such as assignments

Summative assessment is continuous within the classroom while formative assessment is formal and closes down a unit of learning such as assignments

When would you use formative assessment and summative assessment?

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What is the purpose of formative assessment?

So teachers can make a decision to re teach or move forward within the lesson

To create tracking data of progress for Ofsted

A optional part of a lesson that shows that students are working within the lessons

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What are the benefits of Think Pair Share?

Students answer the questions quickly and efficiently using mini whiteboards

Students develop social and presentation skills by working cooperatively and presenting their thoughts back to the class

Students work individually and present their findings back to the class.

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What question do you consider to be least effective?

Explain the task I just set?

Do you understand what you need to do?

What are the important steps involved in completing the task I just set?

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What is an exit ticket?

The final formative assessment task at the end of the lesson, should take 10 minutes to complete and should be formally marked.

The final formative assessment task at the end of the lesson, should take 2-3minutes to complete .

Something learners get at the end of the lesson that says what they have achieved

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Assessment for Learning ToolkitThis PowerPoint contains hundreds of different ideas for Assessment for Learning to inspire you - Get the balance between variety and repetition of tasks

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Retrieval PracticeKate Jones (2019), Retrieval Practice: Resources and research for every classroom. Publisher: John Catt Educational Ltd

Formative AssessmentShirley Clarke (2014), Outstanding Formative Assessment: Culture and Practice. Publisher: Rising Stars

Teaching GuidanceAnn Gravells (2017), Principles and Practices of Teaching and Training: A guide for teachers and trainers in the FE and skills sector (Further Education and Skills).

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For more information

Links to resources of interest

• What is Retrieval Practice?

• Retrieval Practice: A teachers guide

• 7 Smart Ways to do Formative assessment

• Questioning Strategies

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• A closed question typically generates a yes or no, binary response e.g. "Did you have lunch today?"
• A open question typically generates a more comprehensive answer beyond yes or no e.g. "What did you have for lunch today?"

• Give time for students to answer
• Use open questions
• Ask Why? to student responses to probe deeper
• Bounce the answers of students with others 'Do you agree? Why?'
• Collect whole-class responses through the use of mini-whiteboards

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• What do you think is the purpose of formative assessment at the start of the lesson?
• How would you integrate it into your sessions?

Reflection

• Think Pair Share?
• Debate?
• Research and Present?
• Something different?

What formative assessment will you choose?

• Act on the findings - if knowledge is learned, move on, if not, re-teach
• Formative assessment should take part at the end of an activity; such as research, mind mapping, etc.
• Should take no longer than 5 minutes.
• Can be as quick as 30 seconds by show of hands or mini-whiteboard responses.
• If learners raise their hands to say they understand, challenge them to confirm.

Key Ideas

Thinking about what you have learned about questioning, write down five top tips you would give another member of staff about questioning students.

5 Top Questioning Tips

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What is the purpose of formative assessment at the end of the session?What techniques of formative assessment will you try?How will you use their answers to instruct your teaching?

Reflection

Blooms Taxonomy Question Stems

• Blooms Question Stems - use these Stems to promote higher order thinking
• The 5 Why's - ask the learner Why? five times. Challenge the rest of the room by bouncing the Why's to other students

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• 3, 2 , 1 - Three things learnt, two key words, 1 question
• Instragram Post - Draw what you learnt today and then write a caption with # that captures the learning
• One thing I did well today was.... One thing I still need practice on is.... One question I still have is.......
• Quiz - completed electronically, on paper, mini-whiteboards etc.
• If you had to describe what you learned today very simply to a young child, how would you describe it? Simplifying a concept into it's most basic terms can help students boil it down to its key points.

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