Key Assessment Principles
Defined as the collection, evaluation, and use of information to help teachers and students make decisions that improve learning
What is assessment?
The process used by teachers and students to recognize and respond to student learning in order to enhance that learning, during the learning.
What is formative assessment?
When an artifact or something tangible is produced for assessment
What is a product?
This tool helps to observe and record behaviours or characteristics judged as either present or absent (Y/N) during the learning process
What is a checklist?
This all class response tool uses student cards and a device to ask and record answers to selection questions
What is Plickers?
Confidence that the assessment process provides enough consistent, stable information to allow you to make inferences about a student.
What is reliability?
Every lesson esp. if a new concept or competency is introduced should include this process
What is APK (activating prior knowledge)?
Using this power and recording data based on what is seen or heard
What is observation?
This tool contains a list of responses or elements of behaviour to be rated and or to indicate frequency or quality of response
What is a rating scale?
Examples of this tool are holistic, single-point and analytic
What is a rubric?
How well the assessment process and tools measure what you’re trying to measure and lead to appropriate conclusions.
What is validity?
The process of guiding and providing opportunities for each student to monitor and critically reflect on their learning and identify next steps for growth
What is assessment AS learning?
Assessment done by the learners
What is self and peer assessment?
A tool used to evaluate the quality of students' responses, representations or performances with evaluative criteria and descriptors of quality for those criteria at particular levels of achievement
What is a rubric?
Examples of this type of question are fill-In the blanks, short answer or essay
What are supply questions?
Assessment can be described as this if it’s transparent, appropriate, gives equitable treatment and allows for reflective interaction in a constructive environment.
What is fair?
Formative assessment done early in the year, term or unit to determine where a learner is at with respect to that focus (esp. to identify challenges they may have)
What is diagnostic assessment?
Engaging in conversation with learners and recording the data in situ (or afterward)
What is conferencing?
The systematic documenting of observational data collected during (or immediately after) a performance or event (or incident)
What is an anecdotal record?
In a lesson or learning engagement, these 3 elements of the lesson plan should be tightly aligned
What are SLOs, essential questions and assessment strategies & tools?
This provides key information to learners (and teachers) in a timely way to move learning forward.
What is feedback?
When teaching and learning how to self and peer assess, students should learn this one first.
What is peer assessment?
All assessment is essentially based on this
What is questioning or questions?
Photographs, videos or audio recordings are examples of this
What is a direct record or trace?
This is the foundation goal of self and peer assessment (and arguably all assessment)
What is metacognition?