Origins
Advanced degree made no difference in student learning.
What did Leigh discern from his research?
Connecting the brain with its physiology.
What is a neuroscience?
Experiences that shape our current selves.
What is a formative experience?
Decisions being made at the heart of formative assessments drives the design of assessment design.
Where is the emphasis placed when designing formative assessments?
Teacher, peer, learner
What are the three roles of teaching?
Michael Scriven
Who coined the term Formative Assessment?
People remember 90% of what they do.
What is a neuromyth?
Describes the function that evidence from assessment actually serves.
Resutlts are provided at a broad level and often arrive weeks or months after the assessment.
What are the disadvantages of standardized tests?
Three processes of teaching
Identifying where learners are going, finding out where learners are in their learning, and working out to get them to their goal.
Fewer students were placed in special education classes when empirically validated developmental progressions were used.
What did the MAPS study reveal?
Listening to classical music can improve a child's cognitive development.
What is the Mozart effect?
Focus is on resulting actions instead of the intent.
Design backwards from the decision that needs to be made.
What is the ideal design for formative assessments?
Adaptive teaching
Using evidence about learning to adjust instruction to better meet students' needs.
Meta-analysis found that regular assessment with follow-up action improves student learning at a higher rate.
Research from Doug and Lynn Fuchs
Knowing that one form of learning is more relevant than knowing where in the brain learning happens.
What is the focus of cognitive psychology?
Decisions about next instructional decisions.
How does formative assessment connect with teaching and learning?
Data are pushed at the teacher although designers are unclear about what the teacher should do with the information.
What is a data push?
Teacher's role in understanding where the learner is right now.
What is eliciting evidence of learning?
Classroom assessments used to select students does not improve learning as much as assessments designed to support learnng.
What were the main findings of Natriello and Crooks?
Plausible explanatory mechanisms for things we already know from cognitive science.
What does neuroscience explain?
Process that occurs in students' heads when they can do things they were not able to do before.
What is learning?
Decision pull approach.
What is the process called when the teacher know what to do with the data that are collected during assessment?
Activating learners as owners of their own learning.
What is the student role in learning?