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Formative
Assessment
Strategies Utilizing Technology
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By Patty Stephens
Secondary Math Instructional Specialist,
Northshore School District

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Welcome!
Some Nuts and Bolts…
Participant Materials on DropBox
•http://goo.gl/KkCvWk
Our Parking Lot:
•https://todaysmeet.com/FAwithTech

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Goals for Today…
• Background and Philosophy
• What is Formative
Assessment?
• Tech Tools for Formative
Assessment
- Student Response Systems
- Feedback Tools
- Capturing Students’ Thinking

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Patty likes teaching!

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Patty likes teaching!
• 17 years in the classroom
– 4 years teaching Junior High
– 13 years teaching High School
• Currently the Secondary Math Instructional
Specialist for Northshore School District
• National Board Certification – AYA-Math
• Assessment Specialist
• Passionate about Ed Tech

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Two Events that
Shaped My Teaching
Assessment TrainingS Iunssttaitinuateb l(eA CTlIa)ssroom +

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My Philosophy
Use technology to
Assess FOR Learning
“How do you know
that they know?”

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Assessment FOR Learning
Research-based
Assessment
Strategies
Appropriate
Instructional
Technologie
s
+
= Engaged students!

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Assessment FOR Learning
Research-based
Assessment
Strategies
= Immediate
Feedback
Appropriate
Instructional
Technologie
s
+

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Assessment FOR Learning
Research-based
Assessment
Strategies
Appropriate
Instructional
Technologie
s
+
= Informed Decision Making

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What is Formative Assessment?
• A deliberate process used by teachers
and students during instruction that
provides actionable feedback that is used
to adjust ongoing teaching and learning
strategies to improve students’
attainment of curricular learning
targets/goals.

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Formative Assessment Process
Clarify
Intended
Learning
Elicit
Evidence
Act on
Evidence
Interpret
Evidence

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Formative Assessment

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Summative Assessment

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Why?
Why use Formative Assessment?

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Why Use
Formative
Assessment?
Hattie Ranking:
Teaching Effects
Source: Visible Learning, Hattie (2009)
Diagram: www.visible-learning.org

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Formative Assessment Tech Tools
Criteria:
• A process
• Used by teachers
and students
• During instruction
• Provides actionable
feedback
• Used to adjust
teaching and learning
Types of Tools:
1. Student response
systems
2. Feedback tools
3. Tools to capture
student thinking

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Student response systems

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Socrative
http://m.socrative.com, Room 350750
•Uses: Warm-ups, Quizzes, Questioning
during instruction, Exit Slips
•Tech requirements:
– teacher device
– one device per student (computer, iPad or
smartphone)
–Web browser or iPad app

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Trig Functions of a 3-4-5 Triangle
• Quick Question:
–Which trig function would have the largest
value?
A. sin A
B. cos A
C. tan A
D. can’t tell

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Trig Functions of a 3-4-5 Triangle
• Quiz: Trig Functions for 3-4-5 Triangle
• Quiz modes:
– Student Paced – Immediate Feedback
– Student Paced – Student Navigation
– Teacher Paced

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Trig Functions of a 3-4-5 Triangle
• Space Race

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Trig Functions of a 3-4-5 Triangle
• Exit Ticket
1. Your name
2. How well did you understand today’s
material?
3. What did you learn in today’s class?
4. Please answer the teacher’s question.
Suggestions:
•Solve a problem.
•What did you find challenging today?
•What helped you learn today?

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Plickers
https://www.plickers.com/
•Good for quick checks for
understanding
•Multiple choice responses only
•Tech requirements:
– one teacher device with camera
(iPad or smartphone)
– Printed student cards: 5x8 or 8x11

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How Familiar are you with DOK?
A. “DOK? What does that stand for?”
B. …
C. …
D. “I could teach a course on DOK!”
Live View of Patty’s Classroom

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ActivePrompt
http://activeprompt.org
•Good for visual prompts
•Tech requirements:
–Teacher device
– Student devices

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The Scrambler
View on YouTube

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The Scrambler
• Dan Meyer’s Scrambler
– http://vimeo.com/58330400

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Position at 2:35
Position at 2:20
Make a guess:
What will the red
scrambler's position
be at the end of the
ride?
•Poll:
http://activeprompt.org/poll/YNWBX
•Responses:
http://activeprompt.org/view/MFNEU

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Answer to the Scrambler
• View Act 3
– http://vimeo.com/58330403

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ActivePrompt
More Examples:
•How are you feeling?
– http://activeprompt.org/poll/ZBRJG
– http://activeprompt.org/poll/AUHVW
•What’s the answer?
– http://activeprompt.org/poll/KCMPH

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Other Student Response Systems
• Everyslide https://everyslide.com
–Collects audience responses while
presenting Powerpoint
–Downside: Powerpoints become static, no
video or animation
• Kahoot! https://getkahoot.com/
• Geddit
• Google Forms

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Feedback tools
For Providing Actionable and/or Automatic Feedback to Students

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Gathering Feedback
• Student Response Systems
• Backchannels
–TodaysMeet
–Twitter hashtags
• Boards
–AnswerGarden
– Linoit

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Providing Actionable Feedback
Classkick www.getclasskick.com
•Free iPad app
•As students work on iPad, teachers can see
their live work and give instant private feedback
•Review by Dan Meyer

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Providing Actionable Feedback
Classkick

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Providing Automatic Feedback
Hot Potatoes http://hotpot.uvic.ca/
• Free for educators
• Creates assessments in a variety of formats
• Auto-scoring; Moodle plug-in for data collection
• Drag & Drop:
• Flashcards
– Polynomial graphs
• Crossword
–Trig properties
• Quiz
Download these quizzes from Dropbox

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Quizlet
http://quizlet.com/
Activities:
•Flashcards: Adding/Subtracting Integers
•Scatter: Parent Functions
•Space Race: Degrees & Radians

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Capturing student thinking

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Turn and Talk:
•What actionable feedback would you give this
student?
•What adjustments would you make in your
instruction based on this work?

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Mathcasts
A MathCast is a screen recording that
captures a person’s voice and handwriting
as s/he explains a mathematical concept or
solves a problem.
Student Mathcast:
•Area of a Triangle by 5th grader Taylor

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Right Triangle Trigonometry
Mathcast: Right Triangle Problem by Mark
Turn and Talk:
•What actionable feedback would you give
Mark?
•What adjustments would you make in
your instruction?

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Screencasting Resources
Recording software:
• My personal favorite:
Camtasia Studio
• Free web-based:
Screenr.com
• Smartboard: built-in
capability
Whiteboard software:
• Free web-based:
https://awwapp.com/
• Free for iPad:
Educreations or
Doceri

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Our Agenda…
• Background and Philosophy
• What is Formative
Assessment?
• Tech Tools for Formative
Assessment
- Student Response Systems
- Feedback Tools
- Capturing Students’ Thinking

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Turn & Talk
• Which of the tech tools you
saw today might you try?
• Do you have another tech tool you
use in your own classroom for
formative assessment?
• Can you think of a different way you
could use one of these technologies
in your classroom?
https://todaysmeet.com/FAwithTech

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Contact Info
Patty Stephens
pstephens@nsd.org

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Contact Info
Patty Stephens
on LinkedIn
or @pattystephens
on Twitter