Assessment or Feedback for Learning......
Ongoing evaluation provides teachers with data relative to student acquisition of knowledge, skills and attitudes.
Teachers adjust pacing of instruction, complexity of materials and concepts, and provide scaffolding to ensure student learning goals are
being met. Data obtained during assessment for learning is designed to help students improve. Results may be recorded to measure growth, but are not included in summative report card grades. The student is the primary audience.
Results from summative assessments are included in report card grades,
providing a snapshot of student performance at a specific point
in time. This information is communicated to students and others who have a right to know.
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Our teachers are working together to develop their understanding of good assessment that leads to better student learning. They are working together in grade level and subject area groupings to collaborate on essential outcomes from the programs of study as well as developing a common understanding of criteria for these outcomes.
Assessment for Learning is......
- unwrapping and mapping subject curriculums
- knowing learner outcomes - backward design
building criteria
- using feedback loops. formative, anecdotal assessment, self-assessments, peer assessments
- building relationships with learners
- involving students in the classroom assessment process - student-reflection
- supporting student learning and communicating that learning
- collaboration
- building common assessments and exemplars
- using assessment as part of the learning
- outcomes and assessment criteria are clear ( rubrics, checklists, criteria)
- assessment is more accurate and focused because it is based on outcomes
Assessment
Core Understandings for all Teachers in WRSD
- Teachers need to understand the purpose of the assessment ( assessment for learning, assessment as learning, assessment of learning)
- Teachers need to have an in-depth understanding of the learner outcomes for the subject areas that they teach.
Administrators need to know the following in order to support teacher learning:
- The importance of knowing what the purpose is for an assessment.
- Have a clear understanding of assessment for learning, assessment as learning and assessment of learning.
- The importance of knowing who will use the results and what will they use the results to do.
- The importance of knowing the learner outcomes for each subject area being taught.
- The importance or unwrapping and mapping subject curriculums and building criteria for the outcomes.