Assessment for Learning
Five Key Strategies Assessment from the Video
#1 strategy: Clarifying, sharing, and understanding learning intentions and criteria for success. The video shares this helps to get students prepared to understand what their classroom skills will be and how it will be measured.
#2 strategy: Engineering effective classroom discussions, activities, and learning tasks that elicit evidence of learning. Using this method will help to develop effective classrooms strategies that allow students to achievement.
#3 strategy: Providing feedback that moves learning forward. Giving students examples and working with them so they get the information they need to better understand problems and solutions.
#4 strategy: Activating learners as instructional resources for one another. Allowing students to interact with their peers in the classroom and work in groups helps to improve their learning.
#5 strategy: Activating learners as owners of their own learning. Students need to become actively engaged with the learning process, they must have guidelines, opportunities to learn, and engage in self assessment.
Formative Assessment and Summative Assessments
Both assessments play an important part of learning. The formative assessment allows teachers and students to give immediate feedback and results. By using this it allows teachers to find out the learning styles of each students and it allows the student to focus on the areas that they have problems in. The summative assessments are used at the end of learning to evaluate student learning. Summative assessments are used to measure student’s growth. Summative assessments are used when doing midterms, final paper or project. Then the information from the assessment will be used to obtain information about what has been learned and what needs to done to improve learning.
To Create an Effective Classroom
I can use formative assessment in my preschool classroom during digital story time and I can use summative assessments to study and record data of my students to find out what they learned during story time and what I can do to better improve the activity. Digital storytelling can be used as an effective and well-organized formative assessment strategy in the preschool classroom. The summative assessments can be used to evaluate the effectiveness of digital story time verses reading the book in the traditional classroom. The finding from the summative assessments can used to measure students growth and determine whether long term learning goals have been met.
Newman, R. (2013). Teaching and learning in the 21st century: Connecting the dots. San Diego, CA: Bridgepoint Education, Inc.