CPUMS
Week of November 14
Formative Assessment Strategies
AEA 267 Standards Based Grading Conference
Thank you Ellen Popenhagen for the following Information.
Last Wednesday, Mr. Winterhof, Lori D. , and Cindy H. traveled to AEA 267 for the Standards-Based Grading Conference. The Keynote speaker was Mr. Ken O'Connor, who is known for his expertise of how to grade in a standards system. In his keynote PowerPoint, O'Connor offered the 15 fixes to different issues with standards-based grading.
Note that O'Connor's use of the term "grade" in these "fixes" is to mean the letter or number at the end of a reporting period; he uses the term "marks" to indicate the levels of learning on an assessment or practice.
Fixes for ingredients that distort achievement:
1. Don’t include student behaviors (effort, participation, adherence to class rules, etc.) in grades; include only achievement.2. Don’t reduce marks on ‘work’ submitted late; provide support for the learner.
3. Don’t give points for extra credit or use bonus points; seek only evidence that more work has resulted in a higher level of achievement.
4. Don’t punish academic dishonesty with reduced grades; apply other consequences and reassess to determine actual level of achievement.
5. Don’t consider attendance in grade determination; report absences separately.
6. Don’t include group scores in grades; use only individual achievement evidence.
Fixes for low quality or poorly organized evidence:
7. Don’t organize information in grading records by assessment methods or simply summarize into a single grade; organize and report evidence by standards/
learning goals.
8. Don’t assign grades using inappropriate or unclear performance standards; provide clear descriptions of achievement expectations.
9. Don’t assign grades based on student’s achievement compared to other students; compare each student’s performance to preset standards.
10. Don’t rely on evidence gathered from assessments that fail to meet standards of quality; rely only on quality assessments.
Fixes for inappropriate number crunching:
11. Don’t rely on the mean; consider other measures of central tendency and use professional judgment.
12. Don’t include zeros in grade determination when evidence is missing or as punishment; use alternatives, such as reassessing to determine real achievement or use “I” for Incomplete or Insufficient evidence.
Fixes to support the learning process:
13. Don’t use information from formative assessments and practice to determine [summative] grades; use only summative evidence.
14. Don’t summarize evidence accumulated over time when learning is developmental and will grow with time and repeated opportunities; in those instances emphasize more recent achievement.
15. Don’t leave students out of the grading process. Involve students - they can - and should - play key roles in assessment and grading that promote achievement.
Gradual Release of Responsibily
"With strong vertical alignment and purposeful instruction, students learn. While there are many reasons that children struggle with reading and writing, there are not endless numbers of solutions. Students who find literacy tasks difficult deserve increased attention from their teachers, quality reading materials, and authentic opportunities to read and write. If we provide them with these essentials, we can expect great things. If we do not, we cannot expect students to know themselves or their world. -Douglas Fisher
One authentic opportunity is the gradual release of responsibility. The following article explains the strategy in more detail.
Calendar
Monday 11/14/16
- Meeting with S. ODell and J. Quandah from GWAEA
- Visit classrooms
- Team meetings-task
- Book study-Mathematical Mindsets (if you are interested in joining stop by and see me)
Tuesday, 11/8/16
- Visit classrooms
- Subject area meetings
- Concert
Wednesday,11/9/16
- Data teams-7:30
- J'Nee Offerman Reade will be visiting math classes
- Visit Classrooms
- Visit Classrooms
- Team Learning Meetings-Hattie's Mindframes
Friday, 11/11/16
- Visit Classrooms
- Meet with ICs-PM
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Growth Mindset Quote-as recorded on tabletop during professional learning
- More you use it, the more it grows.
- Praised for effort?!!
- If you don't have ability-need another way to succeed.
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