June 2009 Powerpoint (Original)
- 1. Raymond School DistrictTeaching and LearningHow Do We Know What They Know?
- 2. “A Global Vision”Three things Research Tells Us:
- 3. No significant learning occurs without significant relationships
- 4. Professional development is powerful
- 7. Assessing to Standards2Raymond School District
- 8. If we want student achievement to improve, what must we change?The adults’ learning experience-Time to ponder, plan and produceThe students’ classroom experience- Instructional Focus
- 9. The feedback we give students- Assessment Focus3Raymond School District
- 10. Instructional Focus In schools showing marked improvement in low-performing student achievement, providing constructivist learning opportunities was the onlymitigating factor.Duane Baker, 20034Raymond School District
- 11. What Supports Instructional Focus?Clear learning standards
- 12. Explicit teaching of standards
- 13. Transparent reporting of standards-based achievement
- 14. System designed to measure student growth, not sort5Raymond School District
- 15. Why clear standards?6Raymond School District
- 16. Who’s clear about the goal?7Raymond School District
- 17. Assessment“All of these studies show that innovations which include strengthening the practice of formative assessment produce significant, and often substantial, learning gains.”—Paul Black and Dylan Wiliam8Raymond School District
- 18. What Supports Good Assessment?Standards-based Assessment
- 19. Development of assessment tasks
- 21. Coordinated assessment (classroom, school, state)9Raymond School District
- 22. Standards and Grades10Raymond School District
- 23. Standards and GradesWhat does a grade represent?11Raymond School District
- 24. Standards and GradesWhy do we grade?12Raymond School District
- 25. What’s in a grade?13Raymond School District
- 26. What’s in a grade?14Raymond School District
- 27. What’s in a grade?15Raymond School District
- 28. What’s in a grade?16Raymond School District
- 29. Reasons We GradeFeedback about student achievement
- 32. Motivation
- 33. Administrative purposes (rank, credits, GPA)17Raymond School District
- 34. What’s in a grade?18Raymond School District
- 35. What’s in a grade?19Raymond School District
- 36. What’s in a grade?20Raymond School District
- 37. What Can We See?Four weeks of 76-minute classes
- 38. Six marks >=90%, two in high 80s, none lower than 62.5%
- 39. Grade awarded was 68.1%
- 40. Without a “0”, the grade would be 81.6%21Raymond School District
- 41. Did you ever feel like this? “A grade is an inadequate report of an inaccurate judgment by a biased and variable judge of the extent to which a student has attained an undefined level of mastery of an unknown proportion of an indefinite amount of material.”—Paul Dressel22Raymond School District
- 42. Packing a Parachute23Raymond School District
- 43. Discussion questions for the parachute packing caseWhich student will you choose to pick your parachute? Why?If these were scores in a typical teacher’s grade book, which students would pass? Which students would fail?Is there any discrepancy between your answers to questions 1 and 2? If so, why does this discrepancy occur?What are the implications of this for the way you calculate student grades?24Raymond School District
- 44. Does it matter in Raymond?25Raymond School District
- 45. Perspectives on GradingGrading is not essential to learning
- 47. Grading is subjective and emotional
- 49. Grading has a limited research base
- 50. Grading has no single best practice
- 51. Grading that is faulty damages students and teachers26Raymond School District
- 52. Standards-based GuidelinesRelate grading procedures to the standards and other learning goals
- 53. Use criterion-referenced performance standards as reference points to determine grades
- 54. Limit the valued attributes included in grades to individual achievement
- 55. Sample student performance—do not included all scores in grades
- 56. Grade in “pencil”, so records can be updated easily
- 58. Use quality assessments and properly recorded evidence of achievement
- 59. Discuss and involve students in assessment, including grading, throughout the teaching/learning process27Raymond School District