Join educators and assessment experts as they discuss the role of formative assessment in student learning, how formative practices can guide the teaching and learning cycle, and the positive impact assessment can make on your classroom. We’ll cover topics including: • Reframing the value of assessments and focusing on learning opportunities • Using assessment data to make informed decisions about instructional strategies • Engaging students in their learning through formative assessment

4. My Personal Learning Journey
First School
Sandy, UT
• Affluent community
• Minutes from ski resorts
• Strong parent involvement
• Very little diversity
• High achieving school
Last School
West Jordan, UT
• Highly impacted Title 1 school
• Distressed neighborhood
• High poverty/diversity
• Majority ELL
• Lowest performing school

5. Time to
Turn Things
Around!
In God we trust...
All others must bring
data!
W. Edwards Deming

6. The goal is to transform
data into information, and
information into insight.
- Carly Fiorina

7. Focus on assessments that
give us the RIGHT information
Staying Focused
Focus on standards
Focus on student growth/impact
on student learning!

8. Reframing the value of assessments and
focusing on learning opportunities
Using assessment data to make informed decisions
about instruction
Engaging students in their learning through
formative assessment
How Formative Assessment Supports the Learning
Journey
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9. Reframing the value of assessments
and focusing on learning
opportunities

10. Assessment
Testing

11. The major purpose of assessment in schools should be to provide
interpretative information to teachers and school leaders about
their impact on students, so that these educators have the best
information possible about what steps to take with instruction and
how they need to change and adapt. So often we use assessment in
schools to inform students of their progress and attainment. Of course
this is important, but it is more critical to use this information to
inform teachers about their impact on students. Using assessments
as feedback for teachers is powerful. And this power is truly
maximized when the assessments are timely, informative, and related
to what teachers are actually teaching.
-John Hattie

12. Redefine
Assessment
Gathering information
about students

13. Think about it like
shopping for groceries

14. Using assessment data to make
informed decisions about instruction

15. Think Time

16. Are you looking for a
percentage to report
out or are you really
looking for what
students know and
don’t yet know?
What is your purpose
for assessing?
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Using assessment data to make informed
decisions about instruction
Guiding Questions:
Will you be able to
look at all of the
data
IMMEDIATELY?

18. Educators must
be thorough
DETECTIVES and
curators of data

19. Engaging students in their learning
through formative assessment

20. Learning is a
journey with a
destination
At any point in the learning
journey, students must be able to
answer these three questions:
Where am I going?
How am I doing?
What do I do next?

22. Want more?
Key Strategies for Impactful
Formative Assessment

23. Questions?