Beyond the Test:

Formative Assessment -quick check-ins to assess learning

HFM BOCES

Learning Intentions

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What am I learning today?

• The connection between learning intentions, success criteria, and assessment
• Different ways to assess learning through Universal Response, Teach Back opportunities, and Self & Peer Assessment strategies

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Before we can assess learning...

We have to know what the intended learning outcomes are.

Listen to John Hattie talk about learning intentions and success criteria.

Discussion questions:

• What is the connection between learning intentions and success criteria?
• How are assessments related to learning intentions and success criteria?

Learning Targets

“Students can hit any target they can see that holds still for them.” - Rick Stiggins, 2004

Micro-Assessment

Remember to provide micro-assessment opportunities every 10 minutes during virtual learning sessions

What it is:

A narrowly-focused, short assessment that provides support for decision-making and planning

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Purpose:

to quickly and easily find out enough to make a decision, set a direction or objective, or to perform preliminary or high-level planning

Universal Response Opportunities

Simultaneous replies from every student

• Provide a quick read of student learning in real time
• Promote active learning and give you insight into what is sticking instructionally and what isn’t.
• Reduces the “Follow the Leader” phenomena
• Offer ways for learners to engage in cognitive practices
• Incorrect replies prompt learners to consider what they know and don't know

Waterfall Chat

Remember to save chat, so you can look back at student’s answers

Teacher poses a question

Students type their answer in the chat

The teacher counts down “4-3-2-1 send”

Answers cascade all at once

Response Cards

Remember to take a screenshot, so you can quickly see who knows what

Whiteboards

Hold-up Cards

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Red Green Hold Ups

Old CD and DVD cases can hold red paper on one side and green

on the other

Thumbs Up Thumbs Down

Remember that students can use the reactions button

Thumbs up, Thumbs down gets students thinking about their own learning

Polls

Remember polls can be a lesson opener lending itself to discussion and engagement

Slido

Mentimeter

Poll Everywhere

Google Meets

Zoom

Teach Back

• Create opportunities to place the student in the position of teaching others
• Use the teach-back experiences to consider what students have learned and what they still need to learn
• Invite families to become involved in the demonstrations of learning
• Ensure that students understand what they are learning, why they are learning it, and how they will know that they have learned it

Teach Back

If the student can teach it to someone else, they’ve learned it. Remember to ask students to teach back surface learning as well as deeper learning

“Teach back Tuesdays”- Teach something you learned from the previous week to:

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Another student

A group of students

The whole class

The teacher

A family member

Retell

Remember to use a video platform as a retelling tool for students to teach someone else what they have learned

Timely, efficient way to determine what students remember, what they know, what they don’t know, and where to go next

A group of students

The whole class

The teacher

A family member

Technology

Remember to teach students fewer retell platforms, but support them in getting proficient at using those platforms

Flipgrid

Podcasts

Twitter Posts

Loom

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Self & Peer Assessment

It’s about growth not grading

Glows Criteria Grows

Remember to ask students to self assess in order to move from passive to active learning

Strengths and Areas to Strengthen

Remember to ask students to set goals in order to bring clarity to their own next steps

Rate Your Breakout Room

Remember to ask students to assess their breakout room conversation after their work together

Group objectives were not met

Group objectives were somewhat met

Group objectives were met

Further Reading

Click on each title to access additional resources for your professional learning

6 Tools for Assessing Learning from a Distance

Developing “Assessment Capable” Learners

A Map for Meaningful Learning

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Thank You

Julie Carroll jcarroll@hfmboces.org

Kristen Sikora ksikora@hfmboces.org

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