Achievement Targets
What are benchmarks in learning in which teachers can interpret success goals?
Achievement Targets
How do we define culture? Why is it important in the classroom?
A person's culture can be defined as their beliefs, habits, traditions, memories, rules, ideas, identities, etc. Culture is important in the class because it is relevant to how we assess students.
What is student development shaped by?
Nature and nurture.
What is a social network?
A social network is a group of individuals and the relation or relations defined on them.
What is one major advantage of giving selected-response assessments?
Ease of use.
What are the different types of constructed response assessments?
Essays, short answer, and fill-in-the-blank assessments without word banks.
What is the starting point for creating assessments?
Setting clear and achievable targets.
What is Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT)?
Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT) is the use of cultural characteristics, experiences, and perspectives of ethnically diverse students as a channel for teaching students more effectively.
What are the three disciplines of the Biopsychosocial Method?
Biological, psychological, and sociological.
What is social network analysis?
Social network analysis is considered both a tool and method that helps to empirically understand relationships through visualization techniques.
What are the four types of selected response assessments?
Multiple choice, binary (True/False), matching, and fill-in-the-blank with a word bank included.
What are the pros of constructed response assessments?
Constructed response assessments are easier to write, provide more depth of a student's knowledge, limit guessing, can potentially limit test anxiety, allow students more time to think through questions, allow students to demonstrate their composition skills, and can be considered more culturally responsive.
What are the five categories of achievement targets?
Knowledge, reasoning, performance skills, products, and dispositions.
What are the components of Culturally Responsive teaching?
Developing a knowledge base about cultural diversity, demonstrating care and building learning communities, communicating with ethnically diverse students, responding to ethnically diverse students in the delivery of instruction.
Why is the Biopsychosocial (BPS) Method important in assessing the whole child?
To assess the whole child, each aspect of the BPS has to be assessed. This allows educators to understand how to teach and assess the whole child while teaching necessary content material.
What are some examples of positive peer influences in social networks?
Friends can learn together and more advanced students can help struggling students.
What are the pros of selected response assessments?
Selected response assessments are easy to grade, provide objective scoring, and allow for many items per unit to be tested at a time.
What are some examples of other methods of assessment?
Public speeches, portfolios, art, graphic novels, group projects, singing, dance, film, performance, and playing instruments.
What are the three things to consider when creating achievement targets?
Know your target, we sample achievement to make generalizations about student learning, and assessment techniques should make sense to the teachers.
What are some examples of being culturally responsive in the classroom?
Including parents of diverse cultures, differentiate instruction, use data-driven approaches to promote student engagement, and promote interactions that connect a student's home and school.
To teach and assess the whole child, what needs have to be met first?
Students need their physical needs met first before learning and assessing can take place.
What are some example of negative peer influences in social networks?
Bullying - Students who are bullied might not perform as well on assessments. Distractions - Students often can distract their peers and distractions often lead to students not paying attention. When students do not pay attention, this can influence the outcome of their performance on assessments.
How can educators be culturally responsive when creating items for selected-response assessments?
Educators can be culturally responsive when creating assessments by being sensitive to gender and cultural issues, and keeping vocabulary consistent with the level of student understanding.
What is one way to be culturally responsive when assessing student knowledge?
Educators can be culturally responsive when assessing student knowledge by allowing students to choose how they demonstrate what they know.
What is one way that educators can make achievement targets culturally responsive?
With the influx of English Language Learners or ELLs in the United States, educators must use syntax that students understand. Also, students can be provided copies of their achievement targets in their native language.
What are five steps that teachers can use to help build academic vocabulary and increase cultural responsiveness in the classroom?
Introduce and label the strategy, identify and explain the use, model the use, have students rehearse the use of the vocabulary term, and discuss how it is used for other learning tasks.
What are some examples of the BPS that educators see in the classroom?
Sleeping in class, food insecurity, test anxiety, performance anxiety, poverty, use of drugs or alcohol, learning disorders, chronic illness, homelessness, and exposure to traumatic experiences.
Classroom seating arrangements are types of social networks. What are some seating arrangement types that contribute to culturally responsive classrooms?
Roundtable - Having student desks set up in a circle formation leads to building a sense of community in the classroom, and often lend to more interaction between students and teachers.
Cluster Seating - Allows for 2 to 5 students to sit together and interact with each other. This also allows students to work easily together.
Mrs. Smith is a high school, Geometry teacher. She is assessing her students on constructing two-column proofs on parallel lines and perpendicular lines. Many of her students are English language learners and students with disabilities. How can she create a selected-response assessment that assesses the whole student?
Mrs. Smith can assess the whole student by providing students with a word bank to complete the two-column proofs with. Also, to assist her ELL students she can provide a translated version of the proof and word bank for students to use to complete the assessment.
Mr. Jones teaches Algebra I at a local high school. He recently finished a unit on exponential functions. Mr. Jones wants to create a constructed response assessment that allows his students to create an exponential word problem, write the function, graph the function, and then describe its characteristics. How can he create this type of assessment and be culturally responsive?
Mr. Jones can create this type of assessment by encouraging his students to create word problems based on their culture. Also, he can provide an example for students to use as a guide and a rubric for how the assessment will be graded. The rubric will help to eliminate bias.