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 Assessment: �unpacking student thinking

Tamara and Ariane

Peer Mentor Teacher Education

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Hello!

My name is Tamara and I live in Edmonton, AB. I teach students in grades 4-6, am a current student in the MET program, and work as a Peer Mentor at UBC.

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My name is Ariane and I live in Vancouver. I am a current Ph.D. student in the Curriculum Study program, and work as a Peer Mentor at UBC.

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Workshop Highlights

  • Assessment in BC Curriculum
  • Developing, interpreting, and accessing student thinking
  • Digital assessment

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Assessment in BC Curriculum���

  • “Classroom assessments are an integral part of the instructional process and can serve as meaningful sources of information about student learning”.
  • “Feedback from ongoing assessment in the classroom can be immediate and personal for a learner and guide the learner to understand their misconceptions and use the information to set new learning goals”.
  • “Given its many benefits for learning, classroom assessment is being given a much higher profile in B.C. than in the past”.

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Source: BC Ministry of Education. https://curriculum.gov.bc.ca/classroom-assessment

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Assessments' Purposes

Source: Adapted from Victoria (Australia) Department of Education and Training

Formative

Somative

Diagnostic

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Types of assessment:

  • Diagnostic
    • used to collect data on what students already know about the topic.
  • Formative
    • used during the learning process
    • provides feedback on learning-in-process
    • ungraded
  • Summative
    • used at the end of the learning process
    • evaluates student learning against some standard or benchmark
    • graded

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Source: Queensu

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Assessment

Evidence

Students’ thinking

Source: Teaching Works Team

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Developing, interpreting, and accessing student thinking

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Source: Teaching Works Team

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What did you notice the teacher doing or saying to unpack students thinking?

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Source: Teaching Works Team

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Unpacking what we have learned

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Self- Assessment

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digital assessments

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Topics

  • Digital quizzes (Kahoot, Quizizz, GIMKIT, Forms)
  • Digital exit passes (Forms, Padlet, Jamboard, Flip)
  • Digital KWL chart to assess prior knowledge (Jamboard, Padlet)
  • Show what you know (Flip, Padlet, Jamboard, Slides)
  • Assessing (in real-time) student progress and understanding during your lesson (Lumio, Pear Deck)
  • Digital self-assessment (I can… statements)

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When building games as formative assessments, we can intentionally design our quiz questions and slides to support retrieval practice, interleaving, and spacing!

Retrieval Practice requires students to recall information forcing them to “pull [their] knowledge out and examine what they know or don’t know.

Interleaving is retrieval practice - involves mixing up closely related topics encouraging students to develop the ability to distinguish between multiple concepts.

Spacing refers to “...taking a given amount of time devoted to learning, and breaking that time down into multiple sessions spread over time.”

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Both programs offer a wide variety of question types you can use to construct self-assessment and goal setting forms for or with your students. To get started go to forms.google.com OR forms.microsoft.com and select New Form!

Google & Microsoft Forms

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The four Forms below are examples of ways you can use various question types to build interactive self-assessments and goal setting forms using Microsoft Forms & Google Forms. With the ability to analyze results in Excel / Sheets, Forms can be a great way to help students track their progression on their learning journey. Click on each Form below to view sample questions.

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The three Forms below are examples of ways you can use various question types to build formative and summative interactive assessments using Microsoft Forms & Google Forms. With the ability to analyze results in Excel / Sheets, Forms can be a great way to help students track their progression on their learning journey. Click on each Form below to view sample questions.

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Padlet

KWL

Exit Pass

Show what you know

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Exit Pass

KWL

Show what you know

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Microsoft Flip for Student Demonstration of Learning

100+ Questions to use as potential Topics!

To sign-up for a free account, click here!

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guest password: Portfolio

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Slides for Student Demonstration of Learning

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Docs for Student Reflection & Self- Assessment

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Click here to make a copy of the sample Slides with Pear Deck!

Don’t forget to get the Pear Deck Add-on for Google Slides!

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Resources

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Thank you!

scarfe.sandbox@ubc.ca

tjabbour@mail.ubc.ca

arianefs@mail.ubc.ca

Tamara and Ariane

Peer Mentor Teacher Education