What
is the difference between curriculum
and assessment?
| 1.
What students learn
2.
Illuminates what is on the test
3.
What we think we taught
4.
Identifies standards/framework
taught
5.
Identifies goals to meet
|
What
students have learned
Reflects
what has been assimilated
The
effectiveness of our methods
Identifies
standards/framework met and which need to be revisited
Identifies
goals not met and need to be readdressed |
TYPES
OF ASSESSMENT
Summative
1.
Design
A. Determine content
i. At the end of ... students should know ... this is
standards driven
ii. What do we want our students to be able to do?
III. choose only the most critical content to assess
B. Determine methodology
i. How will students demonstrate this knowledge?
C. Develop assessment rubric
D. Set performance standard/benchmark and show examples of
of acceptable and unacceptable results
2.
Methodology
A. Test
i. Select type of test
a. multiple choice
i. good for knowledge and comprehension
ii. not good at evaluation and analysis
iii. may be difficult to write
a) suggest 5 possible answers
b) 2 obviously wrong
c) 2 good distracters
d) 1 unambiguously correct
b. matching
c. true false
d. construct and respond
i. fill in the blank
ii. short answer essay
iii. quicker to write but you need to clearly define the
objective and information the student needs to supply
to answer the question
iv. more difficult and time consuming to grade
v. usually requires a rubric
e. products
i. Written
term papers, plays, lab reports, newspaper articles,
letter to editor/public officials,
ii. Physical products
dioramas, sculptures, photographs, rubric needed
B. Performance
i Structured types
a) oral papers
b) recitations
c) rubric needed
ii. Spontaneous
a) evaluating group work
b) evaluating lab procedures
c) evaluating time on task
FORMATIVE
ASSESSMENT
1.
Determine the direction of teaching ... as a result I will ...
A. move forward
B. re-teach
C. retrench (review past material
necessary to understand current topic)
D. rewrite lesson for future
reference
E. go to plan b or c or d, etc.
2.
Evaluates the student's work in progress
3.
Methods
A. Questions
i. wait time is important (normal wait time before the
teacher responds is
one or two seconds, 5 - 15 is needed)
ii. question at all levels of Bloom's Taxonomy (most
instructors limit questions
to knowledge and comprehension. Need to go to higher
levels for
integrative skills.
a) knowledge
b) comprehension
c) application
d) synthesis
e) evaluation
iii. simple response
a) thumbs up
b) color cards
c) hands raised
B. Guided practice
C. Choral response
.... repeat with extinguishing
D. Mind traps
i. flow charts
ii. KWL charts
iii. miind maps
iv. word webs
v. particularly good for review and re-teaching
