Formative assessment ensures learner engagement by providing feedback to students and staff to help students learn and identify misconceptions. It assesses student progress towards goals through both informal and formal assessment activities integrated with feedback, unlike summative assessment which measures learning through marks. To effectively engage students in formative assessment, it should be student-centered, interesting, and develop their identity and interests in authentically relating their learning to future aspirations through enjoyment and a sense of belonging.
A simple presentation related to the types of assessment, mainly summative and formative assessment. At the end of this presentation you will be able to differentiate between these two types of assessment.
Formative assessment is a continuous process of gathering evidence of student learning. It involves observing students, questioning them, and collecting work to determine what they have and have not learned. Teachers use this evidence to provide descriptive feedback to students to help close learning gaps and improve understanding. The goal is for students to understand learning targets and criteria for success so they can independently monitor and improve their own learning.
This document discusses formative and summative assessment. Formative assessment occurs during instruction to provide feedback and inform teaching, while summative assessment evaluates learning at the end. Key differences are that formative assessment is not graded, focuses on process, and provides descriptive feedback, while summative assessment is graded, focuses on products, and provides evaluative feedback. The document also outlines best practices for assessment, including communicating goals to students and involving students in self-assessment.
The document discusses transforming assessments from assessment of learning (AOL) to assessment for learning (AFL). It outlines that AFL is used by teachers on an ongoing basis to help students achieve their potential and is an important part of the learning process. AFL encourages active student involvement in associative assessment to create self-regulated learners. It also discusses various tools used for AFL, such as rubrics, group work, and feedback, and the benefits of AFL in improving student outcomes, motivation, and the teaching-learning process.
This document discusses different types of assessment used in education. It describes formative assessment as assessment conducted during instruction to inform teaching and help students improve. Summative assessment evaluates student learning at the end of a unit. Pre-assessment determines what students already know before instruction. The document provides examples of assessment methods and strategies for each type and emphasizes using assessment to drive instruction rather than solely for grading.
This powerpoint presentation is about Formative Assessment. It talks about What is FA?, Process of FA, Elements and the Use of FA. This PPT also talks about the 7 strategies of FA and what are some recommended strategies of FA. It also talks about the benefits and researchers that support Formative Assessment.
Systematic Process To Continuously Gather Evidence And Provide Feedback About Learning While Instruction Is Under Way (Heritage, Kim, Vendlinski, & Herman, 2009)
Formative Assessment Is A Planned Process In Which Teachers Or Students Use Assessment-based Evidence To Adjust What They’re Doing (Popham, 2008)
It monitors progress
Provides frequent feedback
Assessments happens while learning is still underway
Throughput the semester
Ongoing classroom process
Collection Of Practices That All Leads To Student Learning Improvement
Tool For The Teachers To Determine What They Need To Do To Move The Learner Forward
A Technique To Help The Students Enhance Learning
Formative Assessment A Key To Success.
Monitor Learning Progress During Instruction
Introduction to the evaluation of teaching and learningAnne-Mart Olsen
This document discusses the evaluation of teaching. It argues that evaluating teaching is important for several reasons: to improve teaching and learning experiences, engage in professional development, and provide data to benchmark quality. Effective evaluation of teaching involves collecting data from multiple sources, including student ratings, peer reviews, administrator observations, self-ratings, and literature. The benefits of evaluation include improving teaching practices and the learning environment. The evaluation process should be valid, reliable, and indicate directions for improvement. Rather than relying on a single method, evaluations are best done by obtaining feedback from students, colleagues, literature, and self-reflection.
A simple presentation related to the types of assessment, mainly summative and formative assessment. At the end of this presentation you will be able to differentiate between these two types of assessment.
Formative assessment is a continuous process of gathering evidence of student learning. It involves observing students, questioning them, and collecting work to determine what they have and have not learned. Teachers use this evidence to provide descriptive feedback to students to help close learning gaps and improve understanding. The goal is for students to understand learning targets and criteria for success so they can independently monitor and improve their own learning.
This document discusses formative and summative assessment. Formative assessment occurs during instruction to provide feedback and inform teaching, while summative assessment evaluates learning at the end. Key differences are that formative assessment is not graded, focuses on process, and provides descriptive feedback, while summative assessment is graded, focuses on products, and provides evaluative feedback. The document also outlines best practices for assessment, including communicating goals to students and involving students in self-assessment.
The document discusses transforming assessments from assessment of learning (AOL) to assessment for learning (AFL). It outlines that AFL is used by teachers on an ongoing basis to help students achieve their potential and is an important part of the learning process. AFL encourages active student involvement in associative assessment to create self-regulated learners. It also discusses various tools used for AFL, such as rubrics, group work, and feedback, and the benefits of AFL in improving student outcomes, motivation, and the teaching-learning process.
This document discusses different types of assessment used in education. It describes formative assessment as assessment conducted during instruction to inform teaching and help students improve. Summative assessment evaluates student learning at the end of a unit. Pre-assessment determines what students already know before instruction. The document provides examples of assessment methods and strategies for each type and emphasizes using assessment to drive instruction rather than solely for grading.
This powerpoint presentation is about Formative Assessment. It talks about What is FA?, Process of FA, Elements and the Use of FA. This PPT also talks about the 7 strategies of FA and what are some recommended strategies of FA. It also talks about the benefits and researchers that support Formative Assessment.
Systematic Process To Continuously Gather Evidence And Provide Feedback About Learning While Instruction Is Under Way (Heritage, Kim, Vendlinski, & Herman, 2009)
Formative Assessment Is A Planned Process In Which Teachers Or Students Use Assessment-based Evidence To Adjust What They’re Doing (Popham, 2008)
It monitors progress
Provides frequent feedback
Assessments happens while learning is still underway
Throughput the semester
Ongoing classroom process
Collection Of Practices That All Leads To Student Learning Improvement
Tool For The Teachers To Determine What They Need To Do To Move The Learner Forward
A Technique To Help The Students Enhance Learning
Formative Assessment A Key To Success.
Monitor Learning Progress During Instruction
Introduction to the evaluation of teaching and learningAnne-Mart Olsen
This document discusses the evaluation of teaching. It argues that evaluating teaching is important for several reasons: to improve teaching and learning experiences, engage in professional development, and provide data to benchmark quality. Effective evaluation of teaching involves collecting data from multiple sources, including student ratings, peer reviews, administrator observations, self-ratings, and literature. The benefits of evaluation include improving teaching practices and the learning environment. The evaluation process should be valid, reliable, and indicate directions for improvement. Rather than relying on a single method, evaluations are best done by obtaining feedback from students, colleagues, literature, and self-reflection.
The document discusses the purposes and types of assessment. There are two main types: formative assessment, which is used to improve teaching and learning by providing feedback, and summative assessment, which is used to evaluate students, teachers, and schools and assign grades or certificates. Formative assessment occurs before learning is complete to monitor performance, while summative assessment happens at the end to measure achievement. Both should be high quality but formative is lower stakes and focuses on improvement, while summative has higher stakes and reports results.
This document discusses assessment for learning and formative assessment. It outlines the key principles of assessment for learning, including that it should be part of effective planning, focus on how students learn, and promote commitment to learning goals. The four basic elements of assessment for learning are sharing learning goals, effective questioning, self and peer evaluation, and effective feedback. Teachers should utilize strategies like these to understand students' progress and inform next steps in instruction. The overall goal of assessment for learning is to help both students and teachers know how to improve learning.
Learning outcomes are statements that specify what learners will know or be able to do as a result of a learning activity. Outcomes are usually expressed as knowledge, skills, or attitudes.
Improving Student Learning: Assessment, Evaluation and Reporting in the ELA C...Ashley Windsor
This presentation explains the differences between the three types of assessment (as, of and for learning) and when they should be used. Linking to Backward Design principles, this presentation will help new teachers to understand the planning process better. It also provides examples of best practices and strategies for use in the ELA classroom.
This document discusses different types and purposes of assessment strategies. It outlines formative assessments which provide ongoing feedback to adjust instruction, summative assessments used to make judgments about student learning at the end of a unit or year, and how assessments should be designed to match achievement targets. The purposes of assessment include helping students set goals, assigning grades, motivating students, and adjusting instruction to meet individual needs.
K. Adams, Canterbury Colloquium, assessmentSusan Gebhard
The document discusses using formative assessment to inform instruction. It defines formative assessment as a way for teachers to monitor student learning through ongoing feedback in order to improve teaching and help students improve learning. The goal is not assessment scores but rather identifying student strengths, weaknesses, and addressing problems immediately. Effective formative assessment is informal, continuous and uses techniques like questioning, observing, discussing and collecting student work. Teachers can then use assessment data to create learner profiles detailing students' readiness, interests and learning preferences in order to better meet individual student needs through differentiated instruction and re-teaching.
This document discusses formative assessment and providing effective feedback to students. It emphasizes the importance of having clear learning targets, assessing students in a variety of ways, and giving descriptive feedback to help students improve. Some key points covered include setting clear goals for students, communicating expectations, involving students in self-assessment, and using feedback to guide further learning.
The document discusses formative and summative assessment. Formative assessment involves gathering information during instruction to help teachers and students adjust teaching and learning, while summative assessment evaluates student learning after instruction. Formative assessment provides feedback to help students improve, while summative assessment measures achievement for accountability purposes. Both have important roles to play in a comprehensive assessment system.
This document discusses teaching materials and student progress assessment for e-learning courses. It provides guidance on preparing teaching materials, assessing student understanding through formative assessments, and adapting instruction based on student needs. Effective teaching practices discussed include ensuring instruction is appropriately challenging, based on real-world problems, purposeful, meaningful and interesting. The document also discusses using a variety of assessment methods, preparing assessments to monitor student progress, and adapting content delivery to meet student needs.
Characteristics of classroom assessment By Dr. Shazia Zamirshaziazamir1
The document outlines several key characteristics of effective classroom assessment:
1) Assessment should be aligned with educational standards and help students improve their learning.
2) It should be formative, focusing on student learning rather than evaluation, and provide feedback to help students.
3) Effective assessment considers learning as multidimensional, using diverse methods to provide a complete picture of student progress over time.
Evaluating Teaching in Higher EducationEmma Kennedy
This document discusses various methods for evaluating teaching effectiveness, including the purposes of evaluation, common evaluation methods, and who conducts evaluations. It addresses both formative evaluation to improve teaching and summative evaluation for personnel decisions. Common methods include observation of teaching, in-class and online surveys, informal questions, external examination of assessments, and personal reflection. Issues that can impact evaluations, such as potential gender bias and statistical limitations, are also examined.
This presentation clarifies what formative assessment is. The purpose and intention of formative assessment on improving student learning is emphasized. The different techniques on conducting formative assessment inside the classroom are provided.
This document provides an overview of formative and summative assessment. It defines each type of assessment and compares their purposes, frequency, aims, examples, and advantages/disadvantages. Formative assessment occurs during instruction to monitor student learning and provide feedback, while summative assessment evaluates learning at the end of a period. Both types are useful but serve different purposes in enhancing instruction and measuring competency.
The document defines formative assessment as a deliberate process used by teachers and students during instruction to provide feedback and adjust teaching and learning strategies. It describes the formative assessment process as having four steps: clarify the intended learning, elicit evidence of student learning, interpret the evidence, and act on it to adjust instruction. The document provides examples of formative assessment activities and discusses research supporting its benefits, such as doubling student learning speed. It introduces the Smarter Balanced Assessment System and its digital library of instructional and professional development resources aligned with common standards and the formative process.
After this presentation you will be know about:
An Assessment
What can be assessed?
Which criteria's are helpful in choosing an assessment method?
What should we do with the information from our assessment?
Types of assessment
The document discusses formative assessment. It defines formative assessment as assessment that takes place continuously during teaching and learning to provide feedback to close gaps between current and desired learning goals. The purposes of formative assessment are to determine students' progress towards objectives, provide feedback to motivate students, and help teachers and students identify strengths and areas needing improvement. A sample formative assessment rubric for assessing student presentations on the history of the English language is provided. Research evidence suggests formative assessment can significantly raise students' learning standards.
Classroom assessment involves collecting data on student performance through various strategies to diagnose learning problems, monitor progress, and provide feedback for improvement. It is a formative, ongoing process that is learner-centered and teacher-directed. Formative assessments are used during instruction while summative assessments are given at the end to evaluate student achievement and assign grades. Proper assessment requires clear thinking, effective communication, and matching the appropriate assessment method to the desired learning target.
The document discusses strategies for formative assessment to evaluate student learning. It defines formative assessment as a way to check student understanding along the way and modify instruction if needed. The goals of the workshop are to help faculty explore various formative assessment tools and become proficient in online assessment options. Bloom's mastery learning process and providing just-in-time feedback are discussed as important strategies for formative assessment. The document provides examples of formative assessment ideas like quizzes, concept maps, essays, and portfolios.
This document discusses different types of assessment including formative, interim/benchmark, and summative assessment. It defines assessment as gathering purposeful and systematic measurement to improve student learning and teaching practices. Formative assessment involves gathering evidence of student learning through informal and formal methods to provide feedback and adjust instruction. Summative assessment evaluates learning at the end of a period through tests, projects, and exams. The document outlines different assessment question types, delivery methods, and scoring approaches.
This presentation discusses the meaning of assessment . The difference between assessment an evaluation . Kinds of assessment . Finally, it present simple assessment strategies .
This document discusses methods for promoting positive student perceptions of group assessments. It suggests that group assessments can promote peer cooperation, collaboration and learning from others if designed well. Key factors in effective group assessment design include clearly explaining the purpose and benefits, ensuring fairness in criteria and effort, and providing feedback to individual students as well as the group. The document provides questions to guide designing groups, assessments, and feedback to make group work a positive experience for students.
Foundations for sustaining learning-centered practicesStephen C. Ehrmann
This document discusses seven foundations for sustaining learning-centered education practices. It summarizes research on course redesign at the University of Southern Maine that led to improved student outcomes. The foundations are: 1) leadership prioritizing learning goals and resources, 2) a history of collaborative problem-solving, 3) supportive faculty beliefs, 4) faculty experience with practices, 5) appropriate infrastructure, 6) institutional data and evaluation support, and 7) personnel policies incentivizing improvement. The document provides examples of how institutions can strengthen each foundation to spread innovative teaching approaches.
The document discusses the purposes and types of assessment. There are two main types: formative assessment, which is used to improve teaching and learning by providing feedback, and summative assessment, which is used to evaluate students, teachers, and schools and assign grades or certificates. Formative assessment occurs before learning is complete to monitor performance, while summative assessment happens at the end to measure achievement. Both should be high quality but formative is lower stakes and focuses on improvement, while summative has higher stakes and reports results.
This document discusses assessment for learning and formative assessment. It outlines the key principles of assessment for learning, including that it should be part of effective planning, focus on how students learn, and promote commitment to learning goals. The four basic elements of assessment for learning are sharing learning goals, effective questioning, self and peer evaluation, and effective feedback. Teachers should utilize strategies like these to understand students' progress and inform next steps in instruction. The overall goal of assessment for learning is to help both students and teachers know how to improve learning.
Learning outcomes are statements that specify what learners will know or be able to do as a result of a learning activity. Outcomes are usually expressed as knowledge, skills, or attitudes.
Improving Student Learning: Assessment, Evaluation and Reporting in the ELA C...Ashley Windsor
This presentation explains the differences between the three types of assessment (as, of and for learning) and when they should be used. Linking to Backward Design principles, this presentation will help new teachers to understand the planning process better. It also provides examples of best practices and strategies for use in the ELA classroom.
This document discusses different types and purposes of assessment strategies. It outlines formative assessments which provide ongoing feedback to adjust instruction, summative assessments used to make judgments about student learning at the end of a unit or year, and how assessments should be designed to match achievement targets. The purposes of assessment include helping students set goals, assigning grades, motivating students, and adjusting instruction to meet individual needs.
K. Adams, Canterbury Colloquium, assessmentSusan Gebhard
The document discusses using formative assessment to inform instruction. It defines formative assessment as a way for teachers to monitor student learning through ongoing feedback in order to improve teaching and help students improve learning. The goal is not assessment scores but rather identifying student strengths, weaknesses, and addressing problems immediately. Effective formative assessment is informal, continuous and uses techniques like questioning, observing, discussing and collecting student work. Teachers can then use assessment data to create learner profiles detailing students' readiness, interests and learning preferences in order to better meet individual student needs through differentiated instruction and re-teaching.
This document discusses formative assessment and providing effective feedback to students. It emphasizes the importance of having clear learning targets, assessing students in a variety of ways, and giving descriptive feedback to help students improve. Some key points covered include setting clear goals for students, communicating expectations, involving students in self-assessment, and using feedback to guide further learning.
The document discusses formative and summative assessment. Formative assessment involves gathering information during instruction to help teachers and students adjust teaching and learning, while summative assessment evaluates student learning after instruction. Formative assessment provides feedback to help students improve, while summative assessment measures achievement for accountability purposes. Both have important roles to play in a comprehensive assessment system.
This document discusses teaching materials and student progress assessment for e-learning courses. It provides guidance on preparing teaching materials, assessing student understanding through formative assessments, and adapting instruction based on student needs. Effective teaching practices discussed include ensuring instruction is appropriately challenging, based on real-world problems, purposeful, meaningful and interesting. The document also discusses using a variety of assessment methods, preparing assessments to monitor student progress, and adapting content delivery to meet student needs.
Characteristics of classroom assessment By Dr. Shazia Zamirshaziazamir1
The document outlines several key characteristics of effective classroom assessment:
1) Assessment should be aligned with educational standards and help students improve their learning.
2) It should be formative, focusing on student learning rather than evaluation, and provide feedback to help students.
3) Effective assessment considers learning as multidimensional, using diverse methods to provide a complete picture of student progress over time.
Evaluating Teaching in Higher EducationEmma Kennedy
This document discusses various methods for evaluating teaching effectiveness, including the purposes of evaluation, common evaluation methods, and who conducts evaluations. It addresses both formative evaluation to improve teaching and summative evaluation for personnel decisions. Common methods include observation of teaching, in-class and online surveys, informal questions, external examination of assessments, and personal reflection. Issues that can impact evaluations, such as potential gender bias and statistical limitations, are also examined.
This presentation clarifies what formative assessment is. The purpose and intention of formative assessment on improving student learning is emphasized. The different techniques on conducting formative assessment inside the classroom are provided.
This document provides an overview of formative and summative assessment. It defines each type of assessment and compares their purposes, frequency, aims, examples, and advantages/disadvantages. Formative assessment occurs during instruction to monitor student learning and provide feedback, while summative assessment evaluates learning at the end of a period. Both types are useful but serve different purposes in enhancing instruction and measuring competency.
The document defines formative assessment as a deliberate process used by teachers and students during instruction to provide feedback and adjust teaching and learning strategies. It describes the formative assessment process as having four steps: clarify the intended learning, elicit evidence of student learning, interpret the evidence, and act on it to adjust instruction. The document provides examples of formative assessment activities and discusses research supporting its benefits, such as doubling student learning speed. It introduces the Smarter Balanced Assessment System and its digital library of instructional and professional development resources aligned with common standards and the formative process.
After this presentation you will be know about:
An Assessment
What can be assessed?
Which criteria's are helpful in choosing an assessment method?
What should we do with the information from our assessment?
Types of assessment
The document discusses formative assessment. It defines formative assessment as assessment that takes place continuously during teaching and learning to provide feedback to close gaps between current and desired learning goals. The purposes of formative assessment are to determine students' progress towards objectives, provide feedback to motivate students, and help teachers and students identify strengths and areas needing improvement. A sample formative assessment rubric for assessing student presentations on the history of the English language is provided. Research evidence suggests formative assessment can significantly raise students' learning standards.
Classroom assessment involves collecting data on student performance through various strategies to diagnose learning problems, monitor progress, and provide feedback for improvement. It is a formative, ongoing process that is learner-centered and teacher-directed. Formative assessments are used during instruction while summative assessments are given at the end to evaluate student achievement and assign grades. Proper assessment requires clear thinking, effective communication, and matching the appropriate assessment method to the desired learning target.
The document discusses strategies for formative assessment to evaluate student learning. It defines formative assessment as a way to check student understanding along the way and modify instruction if needed. The goals of the workshop are to help faculty explore various formative assessment tools and become proficient in online assessment options. Bloom's mastery learning process and providing just-in-time feedback are discussed as important strategies for formative assessment. The document provides examples of formative assessment ideas like quizzes, concept maps, essays, and portfolios.
This document discusses different types of assessment including formative, interim/benchmark, and summative assessment. It defines assessment as gathering purposeful and systematic measurement to improve student learning and teaching practices. Formative assessment involves gathering evidence of student learning through informal and formal methods to provide feedback and adjust instruction. Summative assessment evaluates learning at the end of a period through tests, projects, and exams. The document outlines different assessment question types, delivery methods, and scoring approaches.
This presentation discusses the meaning of assessment . The difference between assessment an evaluation . Kinds of assessment . Finally, it present simple assessment strategies .
This document discusses methods for promoting positive student perceptions of group assessments. It suggests that group assessments can promote peer cooperation, collaboration and learning from others if designed well. Key factors in effective group assessment design include clearly explaining the purpose and benefits, ensuring fairness in criteria and effort, and providing feedback to individual students as well as the group. The document provides questions to guide designing groups, assessments, and feedback to make group work a positive experience for students.
Foundations for sustaining learning-centered practicesStephen C. Ehrmann
This document discusses seven foundations for sustaining learning-centered education practices. It summarizes research on course redesign at the University of Southern Maine that led to improved student outcomes. The foundations are: 1) leadership prioritizing learning goals and resources, 2) a history of collaborative problem-solving, 3) supportive faculty beliefs, 4) faculty experience with practices, 5) appropriate infrastructure, 6) institutional data and evaluation support, and 7) personnel policies incentivizing improvement. The document provides examples of how institutions can strengthen each foundation to spread innovative teaching approaches.
This document provides an overview of conducting research in applied education through the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL). It discusses the six steps of the Carnegie Foundation research process: 1) adequate preparation through literature review, 2) clear research goals and questions, 3) appropriate research methods, 4) achieving significant results, 5) providing a reflective critique, and 6) effective presentation of findings. Both qualitative and quantitative research methods are described. Support for SOTL research is available through the JIBC Office of Applied Research and collaborating with other institutions.
This document summarizes a seminar on creating objective-based syllabi. It discusses the basic elements that should be included in a syllabus, such as course information, learning goals, and assignments. It then explains what constitutes an objective-based or learning-centered syllabus, noting that it clearly outlines intended learning outcomes and how they will be measured. The document provides suggestions for developing learning outcomes and assessments. It emphasizes the importance of planning the course rationale, content, activities, and resources to engage students and achieve the specified learning objectives.
This document provides guidance on developing a professional teaching portfolio. It discusses why portfolios are important for showcasing teaching experience and professional development for career purposes. Examples of portfolio elements are given, including a teaching philosophy statement, examples of designing learning activities, facilitating learning, assessing students, providing feedback, and engaging in professional development. Digital portfolios are recommended to increase accessibility and allow inclusion of multimedia. Goals for starting a portfolio are discussed, such as developing a teaching philosophy and selecting other evidence of teaching quality to include.
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The document provides information on team building activities, change management strategies, adult learning principles, learning styles, and presentation skills. It includes definitions of key terms like andragogy and discusses differences between how children and adults learn. Guidelines are presented for developing a Change Implementation Plan (ChIP) and tips are offered for effective delivery including establishing norms, controlling pace, and varying energy. The content emphasizes making learning relevant, allowing self-direction, and drawing on life experiences of adult learners.
This document discusses using feedback to improve instructional design practices. It describes initiatives at Thompson Rivers University to more systematically evaluate and share learning activities. Interviews identified factors for successful activities and feedback desired by designers. Designers deal with many variables intuitively, unaware of implications. The complexity of their work is underrecognized. Providing shared "rules of thumb" documents and distributing the design process could help amplify designers' response to complex problems. Feedback should test hypotheses about what works and inform practice through action research. This closes the loop between feedback, analytics, and design.
The document discusses strategies for raising achievement in special education students, including differentiated instruction, understanding by design, and higher-order thinking. The goal is to increase the number of special education students scoring proficient or advanced on math assessments. Differentiated instruction involves modifying lessons based on student needs, interests and styles. Understanding by design uses backwards planning starting with desired outcomes. Higher-order thinking focuses on analysis, evaluation and creation over simple recall of facts.
Mark Bailye, Client Success Specialist, A/NZ | Bb Education on Tour 2015 | Ed...Blackboard APAC
The document discusses assessment and feedback principles for encouraging positive learning habits. It describes Mark Bailye's role as an Adoption Specialist with Blackboard, providing expertise on effective adoption and implementation of Blackboard solutions. The document outlines areas of Mark's expertise including academic change management, curriculum design, and strategic learning management system planning and implementation. It focuses on encouraging positive learning habits, assessment and feedback, outlining key principles and how tools in a learning management system can support these areas. Examples are provided around using tools like assignments, discussions, badges and adaptive release to trigger actions, provide rewards and encourage investment in learning.
This document provides guidance on course design and syllabus construction. It discusses establishing learning objectives and outcomes, considering different teaching modes like flipped or hybrid, using appropriate media and technology, scaffolding course content, incorporating various learning activities, and constructing an effective syllabus. The goal is to plan lessons from a student-centered perspective and create a well-designed course through a balanced syllabus that is consistent with best practices.
The document discusses instructional planning models and their importance for school districts. It defines instructional planning models as frameworks that guide curriculum, instruction, assessment, and school organization to increase student achievement. The document reviews several specific models, including Understanding by Design (UBD), Dimensions of Learning (DOL), and Learning Focused Schools (LFS). It discusses establishing a committee to review models and determine the best approach for the Methacton School District.
This document outlines the four modules in the Cambridge International Diploma for Teachers & Trainers (CIDTT): Design, Practice, Assessment, and Evaluation. It discusses the contents of each module, including identifying learner needs, lesson planning, teaching skills, assessing student progress, and evaluating learning programs. It also provides examples of assignments, activities to understand learning styles and learner behavior, and the importance of needs analysis, goal setting, and designing lesson/session plans that incorporate learning theories and differentiation. Reflecting on teaching practices and continuously improving planning is emphasized.
This document summarizes an orientation for Medaille College interns. It discusses:
- The objectives of connecting students to resources, reviewing the internship process, and introducing experiential learning theory
- Key messages about taking ownership of one's learning and being responsible and accountable
- Definitions of internships as structured, supervised opportunities to apply classroom learning in real-world contexts
- Benefits of internships like applying knowledge to problems and exploring career choices
- Resources available to students, including guidelines and requirements
- The roles and responsibilities of students throughout the internship stages
- Kolb's experiential learning cycle of concrete experience, reflective observation, abstract conceptualization, and active experimentation as a framework
This document outlines Forum's Principles of Learning presentation from 2011. It discusses trends impacting workplace learning effectiveness and strategies for success. The 6 principles of workplace learning are outlined as linking learning to individual and organizational value, connecting action and reflection in a continuous cycle, addressing learners' attitudes and behaviors, providing a balance of challenge and support, creating opportunities for participants to teach, and designing learning communities and media. The presentation also discusses developing leaders and a shifting role for learning and development in enabling knowledge sharing and building learning solutions to address strategic issues.
This document summarizes a presentation on effective online discussions. It covers tips for planning discussions, the importance of instructor presence, using provocative questions, and case studies. Planning involves setting clear learning objectives. The community of inquiry model and Bloom's taxonomy can help design activities. Facilitation requires summarizing, moderating, guiding, and troubleshooting. Provocative questions apply Socratic techniques. A sample case study outlines objectives for a student-led psychology discussion.
This document provides guidance for instructors on transitioning classroom teaching to an online environment. It discusses key differences in online teaching, including knowing your audience, online course organization and design, building an online learning community, using technology for communication and multimedia, encouraging participation, and collaborating with others. Tips are provided on instructional design, activities to enhance learning and critical thinking, self-reflection and evaluation. Resources for online instruction are also included.
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This document discusses strategies for designing effective training programs. It addresses determining training needs, identifying learning objectives, developing content and sequencing, selecting appropriate delivery methods, allocating resources, and evaluating training impact. The key points covered are: conducting a needs assessment; framing specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound objectives; developing content across cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains; choosing methods related to trainee needs; allocating time and budgets; and measuring performance change and application of skills. Attention is given to making abstract concepts concrete through active learning techniques and facilitating social learning.
The document outlines a learning team's presentation on developing professional knowledge, critical thinking, problem solving, communication, information utilization, and collaboration skills which are important for students' education and careers. Examples are provided of how these skills help students comprehend material, work in teams, make decisions, and develop leadership abilities. The presentation cites sources on critical thinking, problem solving, and comprehensive planning to support the importance of these skills.
The document discusses strategies for effectively managing problem/project-based learning to enhance student learning. It emphasizes the importance of social learning, prior knowledge, and cognitive accelerators like cognitive conflict, metacognition, and social construction. Challenges in project-based learning include lack of problem-solving guidance and moderators. Recommendations include facilitating the problem-solving process, accessing student prior knowledge, designing for cognitive development, establishing routines, and responding flexibly to emerging situations. Project management involves launching projects, teaching processes, critiquing products, and presenting final projects.
Internship orientation power point april 12, 2010Medaille College
This document provides an overview and guidelines for Medaille College students participating in internships. It outlines the three stages of the internship process: preparation and planning, the field experience, and post-internship reflection. Key responsibilities for students are discussed, including developing learning objectives, maintaining a reflective journal, and completing evaluations. The importance of reflection and making meaning from experiences is emphasized through Kolb's experiential learning cycle.
This document discusses peer review and enhancement (PRE) at Sheffield Hallam University. It explains that PRE is a development commitment for all academic staff focused on personal development through experiential learning. Staff must engage in peer observation and reflection on their teaching practice. Peer observation can cover various teaching activities like lecturing, assessment design, and student engagement strategies. The enhancement process involves four stages: focusing on yourself, your peer, what was found together, and sharing outcomes. Departments will coordinate PRE activities and staff will agree on, undertake, and record PRE before sharing outcomes through appraisal and with peers. More information on the PRE process and resources can be found on the listed blogs.
This document announces a workshop to teach participants how to create rubrics in Blackboard to provide assessment criteria and consistent feedback. The workshop will demonstrate how to build a rubric, associate it with assignments, use it to give feedback and view statistics. Attendees will learn how rubrics display expectations, can be reused across courses, and allow students to see grading criteria and how they met standards.
This document provides guidance on writing assessment criteria and performance indicators to effectively evaluate student work. It discusses:
- The purpose and intended outcomes of developing criteria and indicators aligned to learning outcomes.
- How to structure criteria using active verbs from outcomes and descriptive nouns, and to write threshold, differentiated performance indicators using appropriate adjectives.
- Best practices like ensuring criteria sets are coherent, clear, and manageable, and getting feedback from peers on created criteria and indicators.
This short presentation introduces the concept of Constructive Alignment. The idea underpins the design of assessment, learning and teaching to ensure they work in balance.
This document provides an overview and objectives for an online tutorial on being an academic advisor at Sheffield Hallam University. It discusses the key principles and practices of academic advising, including:
1) Ensuring every student has a single named academic advisor for consistent support throughout their course. Advisors monitor academic progression, personal development, and professional development.
2) Academic advising is part of a three-pronged student support strategy along with student support advisors and employability advisors. Advisors must be able to refer students to other services as needed.
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2. Motivation
Creating learning opportunities and structure
Generating feedback for students and staff
Grading
Quality assurance for internal and external systems
Why assess students?
FormativeSummative
Formative assessment: Key ideas
Rust, C. (2015). Basic assessment issues and terminology. Higher Education Academy. Online
at: https://assessmentinhe.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/rust_assessment_terminology.pdf
3. Helps students learn
Identifies
misconceptions in a
timely way
Incorporates
feedforward
Check areas for
improvement
Formative or Summative
Identifies how much has
been learnt
Generates marks
Can be difficult to
incorporate in-module
feedback
Assess progress against
goals
Learn Measure
Ask - How much ‘activity’ around assessment is focused on building learning,
compared with measuring it? Do your students get a consistent message about
why and how we learn at university?
4. an informal – formal continuum with integrated feedback
Formative assessment: Key ideas
formative
Assessment
Informal formative
activities
Formative
Assessment
Formal formative
interventions
Summative
Assessment
e.g. classroom interaction e.g. specified assessment for learning
5. Formative assessment: How
To engage students in formative assessment they must want to engage! (Race, 2007)
Discuss the
Benefits
Develop aspirations
Relate activities to
future aspirations
Foster a sense of
expertise by gaining
experience
Experience good feelings
Feedback that makes a
difference
Design for
Enjoyment
Enjoying ‘becoming’
Enjoying knowing the
detail
Being proud
Enjoying being with
people
Focus on
Identity
Doing the things they
aspire to do
Consciously learning
to think in new ways
Authentic context -
real problems and
opportunities
Course belonging – a
co-operative ethos
Make it Student-centred
Develop Interest: develop a student’s interest in investing
by making it interesting!
6. Review these questions – over to you
How much time do we currently spend in class talking with students and each other
about how we learn in university, and why we learn this way?
What does student-centred learning mean in practice? Do we have examples?
Can we work to the highest (rather than lowest) common denominator when we
design our learning environment? Can we risk losing ‘non-engagers’?
What strategies do/can we deploy to challenge non-engagement with formative
assessment?
Discussion
7. Personally
What do you take from the discussion and what more would you like to find out or
think about?
Collectively
How can your course team or subject group make use of these ideas?
What further development would be useful for you?
Your Action Plan
Editor's Notes
Formative assessment is understood in different ways across the University. Here we look at two meanings and consider why they are both important.
This presentation also looks at the relation of formative assessment to summative assessment and the role of feedback in this relationship.
However, critical to all this, is the desire of students to engage with formative activities, and this presentation will introduce ways to ensure students do engage in activities which do not directly reward them with marks.
First, let’s look at the role of assessment in general.
*** Rust explains that, “We actually assess students for quite a range of different reasons - motivation,
*** creating learning opportunities,
*** to give feedback for the benefit of students and tutors to chart progress,
*** as part of the grading process to explain or justify marks,
*** and as a quality assurance mechanism (both for internal and external systems).”
*** We can see how these purposes help us to think about the differences between assessment as primarly a formative activity and assessment as foremost a summative activity.
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Rust, C. (2015). Basic assessment issues and terminology. Higher Education Academy. Online at: https://assessmentinhe.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/rust_assessment_terminology.pdf
Broadly speaking the first few points are mostly associated with formative assessment, while summative assessment focuses on the measurement of students attainment and ensuring that the course is of a sufficient quality.
The purpose of formative assessment is to:
provide feedback to students
motivate them
diagnose students’ strengths and weaknesses, and
To help them develop self-awareness.
Rust expands on this. He says,
“This is the distinction between assessment which is mainly intended to help the student learn and
assessment intended to identify how much has been learnt.
Formative assessment is most useful part way through a …module, and will involve giving the student feedback which they can use to improve their future performance. In practice, and to varying degrees, most forms of assessment probably try to do both...”
He continues…
It is arguable that assessment in British higher education is too often focused on the summative, and the accumulation of marks, coming at the end of courses, while students would benefit from more opportunities to build on their strengths and learn from their mistakes through the feedback from formative assessment activities staged throughout their course or module. “
His suggestion, then, is that we need to pay much more attention to how we use assessment to motivate students and how we give them useful feedback that will help them learn.
We should ask - How much ‘activity’ around assessment in our teaching is focused on building learning, compared with measuring it? Do your students get a consistent message about why and how we learn at university?
Rust, C. (2015). Basic assessment issues and terminology. Higher Education Academy. Online at: https://assessmentinhe.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/rust_assessment_terminology.pdf
As with feedback, there is a lot of confusion about formative assessment.
Arguably, that is because we tend to focus on summative assessment as the assessment that really matters. After all, it is the form of assessment where we nail our colours to the mast – where our students stand up to be counted and where we make our judgements about students known.
You could think of it differently:
Formative assessment is the opportunity that really matters because it is the non-critical opportunity we have as teachers to make sure our students do well!
Notice, however, this diagram has two circles labelled ‘formative assessment’. The first is spelt with a lowercase ‘f’. The second, with an uppercase ‘F’’
This represents the two ways people tend to talk about formative assessment.
The first describes:
Informal formative activities – those that habitually take place in the active learning environment – for example, through discussion, challenges, experiments, debates – activities that challenge the learner to apply and evaluate what they are learning. Here, feedback is usually integrated, informal in nature, provided by the student themselves by reflecting on their learning, or by peers through discussion or group activities, or by the tutor by summarising activities.
The second circle describes a more formal form of formative assessment. Here,
Formal formative interventions are specifically designed into the teaching to review learning and as an opportunity to formally give students feedback. Here, feedback is carefully designed in response to the ‘low stakes’ formative assessment. It is planned in, so that it is manageable and useful and results in more likelihood of summative success.
Finally,
Summative assessment is a formal intervention designed to evaluate the student’s successful attainment of learning outcomes during a period of study, such as a module. Here, feedback provides an opportunity to correct misconceptions and to advise the student about how they can improve based on their current performance.
Many academics report that they struggle to engage their students with formative assessment. They say their students are only interested in activities that award marks – otherwise it’s not worth their time.
Clearly, not all students are like this but academics at Hallam, and elsewhere, recognise that engaging some students is really challenging. While this is a huge topic, for the moment, let’s look at how this applies to designing and delivering formative assessment.
Race, in his book The Lecturer’s Toolkit, is quite pragmatic. He says, while academics believe they need their students to engage in formative assessments, they actually need to develop intrinsic motivation in their students. In other words, the academic must develop a desire or ‘want’ in their students. The reasons for engaging in something that has no marks attached must be very clearly in their interest.
This means you must spend time discussing the purpose of formative assessment activities with students before introducing them and explain how it fits into the module and how it relates to their summative assessment.
Focus on benefits, enjoyment, and aspirations
*** Beneficial
Develop aspirations - connect the learning of theoretical and practical knowledge to its application e.g. case studies, problem-solving, exploration of professional dispositions.
Relate activities to future aspirations - students see clearly how their involvement in an activity will help them achieve what they want. Talk openly about what students want from the course and from life.
Foster a sense of expertise by gaining experience - taking part allows each student to learn the knowledge and skills that they want, reflect on it, and understand its nuances.
Experience good feelings - taking part allows each student to practice what they are good at and provides them with opportunities to enhance their knowledge, skills and dispositions in a safe, challenging and supportive environment.
Feedback that matters - taking part creates an opportunity for detailed feedback and reflection on their personal performance, capabilities, and understanding and use of knowledge that will directly help them to do well in summative assessments.
*** Enjoyable
Enjoying ‘becoming’ - students take part in relevant activities that allow them to practice the skills they will use in the future.
Enjoying knowing the detail - the activity is intrinsically interesting because it reveals new insights about the knowledge they have and how it can be used.
Being proud - each student is driven to do a good job and take pride in what they are doing. They enjoy producing work they can talk about or show others.
Enjoying being with people who share their academic or professional identity, values and aspirations - students can work with others that matter to them, e.g. peers, experts, real world clients.
*** Developing a professional identity by,
Doing the things they aspire to do
Being the person they aspire to be by consciously learning to think in new ways
Becoming the person they aspire to be by addressing problems and opportunities in authentic ways
Belonging to their course by sharing the formal and informal experiences that come with formative challenges.
*** This is about making assessment, and in this case formative assessment, student-centred.
Ask, “How am I going to develop their interest in investing in this activity?” While we might expect a student to be interested in every aspect of their course, we have to make sure it is interesting enough to guarantee their active participation.
How much ‘activity’ around assessment is focused on building learning, rather than measuring it? Do your summative assessments need to be summative? Can some of them be used more effectively as formative activities? Freed from the need to award marks, does the concept of the formative, low-risk assessment open up creative opportunities to think ‘out the box’ and do something different, exciting, even revolutionary? Is each of your summative assessments accompanied by a preceding formative exercise which allows your students to experiment with their understandings of the key content and access feed-forwards that helps them to refine their learning and the strategies they utilise to demonstrate it? Think about the feed-forward you provide in your formative assessments? Is the feedback clear, transparent and focused on things that students can actually ‘action’ – i.e. take deliberate steps to improve their practice and their summative outputs?”
Longford, A. (2017). #15toptips for Student-Centred Teaching 4: Consider the balance between formative and summative assessment. SEDA blog, Online at:
https://thesedablog.wordpress.com/2017/03/24/15toptips-4/#more-652
Race, P. (2007). The lecturer's toolkit a practical guide to assessment, learning and teaching (3rd ed.). London: Kogan Page.