Practical assessment strategies

1. EDBE 8P43
Assessment II
Class 5
2017-2018

2. J/I Language & Literacy

3. Performance Tasks
Reader Responses
Tests
Portfolios
Checklists
Videos
Journals
Projects
Conferences
Notes
Journal
Blogs
Moderated Wikis
Moderated Online
forums
Student feedback
Focused conversations
Portfolio Conferencing
Observations Products
Conversations
Running Record
List of Books Read
Vocabulary Checklists
Notes from Literature Circle
Observation Checklist
Process folio
Anecdotal observation
Questioning
Presentations
Listening
Speaking
Problem Solving
Group Skills
Sources of Evidence

4. The Focus of Language Assessment
….measuring student progress and
achievement in relation to the content
standards and performance standards
identified for Language

5. Content Standards: What is Being Taught
and Assessed in Language?
All curriculum expectations must be
accounted for in instruction,
but evaluation focuses on students'
achievement of the overall expectations.

6. Reading OE
1. Read and demonstrate an
understanding of a variety
of literary, graphic, and
informational texts, using a
range of strategies to
construct meaning
3. Use knowledge of words
and cueing systems to read
fluently
2. Recognize a variety of text
forms, text features, and
stylistic elements and
demonstrate understanding
of how they help
communicate meaning
4. Reflect on and identify their
strengths as readers, areas
for improvement, and the
strategies they found most
helpful before, during, and
after reading

7. Reading OE Planning Instruction and Assessment
Comprehension Literary Graphic Informational Texts
Fluency
Text Forms, Features, Stylistic Elements
Metacognition

8. Reading Assessment Strategies
• Myoffice.brocku.ca
• OneDrive
• Left menu: Shared with me…
• Edit in Browser
• Divide up the task and enter your comments
on the Shared file: Reading Assessment
Strategies

9. Writing Assessment

10. Performance Standards: What is the
Evidence of Language Learning?
Student work is assessed and/or evaluated in
a balanced manner with respect to the 4
categories, and the achievement of particular
expectations is considered within the
appropriate categories.

11. Evidence: How will I know?
• Exemplars / Student Samples
• Developmental Continuum
• Teacher Moderation

12. ONTARIO WRITING ASSESSMENT

13. Task
Midway through Gr. 5
• You are a reporter for a newspaper. Your
assignment is to write a report about your
school’s upcoming talent show. All the money
raised by the talent show will help buy books
for the school.
• In your report, give details of the upcoming
event.
• Who? What? When? Where? Why? How?

14. Teacher Moderation
Task
• Each table will select an envelope reflecting one
of the Achievement categories (e.g. Thinking,
Knowledge & Understanding etc.)
• Examine the rubric for the student writing task
• Sort the 4 pieces of student writing into levels
1,2,3,4 for the chosen category only.
• When your table has come to a consensus, pick
up an Answer Key envelope for your category,
compare the ranking with yours, and discuss the
rationale given
• Repeat using a different category of Achievement

15. Teacher Moderation
http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/literacynumerac
y/inspire/research/Teacher_Moderation.pdf
http://thelearningexchange.ca/videos/reading-
conference-critical-literacy-3/
Teacher Moderation webcast

16. ThingLink Tutorial
• https://youtu.be/mTwXKbkKlPk
• Both on iPads and web-based

17. Monograph Planning Session 4
• Facilitator and recorder assume roles
• Conference with Instructor for feedback
• Refer to the Assignment Checklist for success
criteria
• Complete Meeting Log #4
• Post to Forum before next class
• Monograph to be posted to Forum before
beginning of Class 6