Assessment as Context
According to this chapter (1a), due to the rise of minority student populations and other changes in teaching, all teachers are now…what?
All teachers are now language teachers (p.25)
What is a teachers #1 Role?
Gain students Trust (p. 36)
What is the most important role that a student identifies as?
Learners (p.216)
What does Assessment as Learning help students do the most?
(Hold themselves accountable academically)
“Gradually take responsibility for their own learning and become independent, capable thinkers.” (p.216)
True or false? Discussing student work is an assessment of learning practice.
True!
Academic conversations, when intentionally geared to grade-level content tasks, provide ideal opportunities for students to work with each other in using language in meaningful ways.”(p.230)
How does the text define language?
Language is the universal medium for meaning making and for communicating to others. (p.28)
True or False; Students often engage in self-reflection without the prompting of a teacher.
False, in most cases it is initiated by thoughtful Teachers. (p. 221)
True or false? Students should not participate in planning for learning due to their lack of knowledge and indecisiveness.
False! “Students should have many opportunities to participate in planning for learning”(p.227)(teachers should always try to learn from their students)
What is Student Agency?
When students advocate on behalf of themselves and speak up.(p.216)
A teacher investigates their students interests before starting a unit. This is an example of student involvement in _____ assessment as learning.
Planning (p 227)
School-age children exposed to cultures and languages other than English daily in their home environments are considered _______.
Linguistically and culturally diverse students (page 30)
What steps do teachers follow to mentor students until they gain the confidence to be independent assessors?
1.Formulating criteria for success
2.Practicing using the criteria
3.Providing individual feedback on criteria
4.Being able to set academic and language goals based on criteria
(p.221)
What is something a student can do that a teacher can have included in their portfolios?
Having Student-led conference (p.234)
Who is the climate in an assessment as learning classroom centered around?
The students (p 225)
How would maintaining student portfolios be a good assessment as learning practices?
Teachers guide students to develop management skills, organization, and the ability to select representative pieces. Teachers can monitor students’ learning progress (p.230)
Linguistically and culturally diverse populations of students are made up of a variety of subgroups. What is the largest subgroup mentioned in Ch 1 ?
English Language Learners (ELL’s) (p.30)
Jane O’Connell and Kara Vandas (2015 offer a research-based model to move learner centered practices forward, thus creating the acronym TRUST. What does the acronym TRUST stand for?
Talent, Rapport + Responsiveness, “Us” Factor, Structures, Time, (p. 221)
Why can peer assessment be helpful?
“Peer assessment is an effective means for having students practice academic language with each other that is grounded in standards and tied to a lesson’s or unit’s activities and task.” (P.30)
Name 4 positive results an of activity engaging students.
Developing habits of mind in inquiry, increasing learner autonomy, advancing intrinsic motivation, honoring the intellectual and life experience of students (p.140)
What is a powerful tool that could help students gain maturity and move toward independence?
Self- and peer assessments (p. 156)
How many goals are there, which aim towards educational equity that will create a context that promotes equity?
6 GOALS
1. comparably high academic achievement and other positive outcomes for all students on all achievement indicators
2. equitable access and inclusion
3. equitable treatment
4. equitable resource distribution
5. equitable opportunity to learn 6. shared accountability. (Regional Equity Assistance Centers, 2013, p. 4)
(p.26)
In a series of steps, “Teachers mentor students until they gain the confidence to be independent assessors.”(p.221) What are the 4 steps?
1.Formulating criteria for success
2.Practicing using the criteria
3.Providing individual feedback on the criteria
4.Being able to set academic and language goals based on the criteria
Where can Student self-assessment be incorporated in a classroom?
Student self-assessment can be incorporated into any content area or language domain.” (p.239)
Provide the four examples given in the text, of how students can have opportunities to participate in planning for learning
1) Setting academic and language goals with the teacher
2) providing personal preferences
3)expressing pervious learning
4) co-constructing criteria for success with teachers
(p.227)
What four practices does the book provide for student involvement in evaluating assessment as learning?
-devising ways of expanding student learning
-planning student-led conferences
-discussing student work
-maintaining student portfolios
(p 230)