This document discusses using multimedia and online collaboration for formative assessment. It explains that formative assessment is used to engage student preconceptions and gauge understanding, while summative assessment evaluates learning. The document provides examples of using pictures and videos to elicit student explanations for real-world phenomena as a form of formative assessment. It also presents a scenario asking students to choose the best description for what happened to water that was in a drying apron and explain their thinking. The purpose is to engage students in applying their knowledge to everyday examples.
6. “Students come to the classroom with
preconceptions about how the world works.
If their initial understanding is not engaged, they
may fail to grasp the new concepts and information
that are taught, or they may learn them for
purposes of a test but revert to their
preconceptions outside the classroom.”
-How People Learn: Bridging Research and Practice (1999)
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9. A picture is worth
(at least)
one formative assessment.
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11. What is the reason for the
visible rocks in the concrete?
19. Mabel washed her favorite apron. She
hung the apron on a clothesline outside.
An hour later the apron was dry.
Choose the answer that best describes
what happened to the water that was in
the wet apron.
A. It soaked into the ground.
B. It disappeared and no longer exists.
C. It is in the air in an invisible form.
D. It moved upward and formed clouds.
E. It chemically changed into
a new substance.
F. It went up to the Sun.
Describe your thinking...
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22. “[Teachers may] come to the classroom with
preconceptions about how the world works.
If their initial understanding is not engaged, they
may fail to grasp the ... concepts and information
that [they are teaching].”
Too often assessment is thought of at the end of learning… end products like quizzes, performances, tests, or end of course exams.
We all know it, but let’s give it names... Teach your students the difference.
Formative: Find out students’ existing ideas Monitor learning, give feedback on learning Used before/during instruction for direction when new ideas are encountered Check and Go to monitor focus Summative: Measures the extent that students have mastered a learning goal at the end of instructional sequence.
Weighted shift toward summative assessment and standardized testing... .. but showing shows marginal gains in achievement. When students’ scores fail to rise significantly, leads to more testing and test prep... ...reduces time teachers spend on problem areas of student learning at the beginnng of instruction... and no monitoring for conceptual change in the first place.... ....A Vicious Cycle
Preaching to the choir. Let’s get started on how to incorporate....
Easy. Go around your campus and gather familiar images. Pose a question that forces them to explain why.
SHOW GOOGLE FORM RESULTS!!!!
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