Week 7: Designing assessments and presentations of learning
- 1. Designing Assessments and Presentations of Learning EDU 5913 - STEM Education for the 21st Century Module 7
- 2. Module 7 Objectives: ● To become familiar with various types and purposes of assessments, including baseline, formative, and summative ● To learn to implement collaborative and student-created assessments ● To learn to implement both physical and internet-based formats for exhibition and Presentations of Learning, and its importance in fostering a sense of motivation, purpose, and understanding of your teaching by students, parents, and the wider community.
- 3. Principles: Classroom Assessment and Reflection Teacher Characteristics: Professional Practice ● Gather information about student understanding and ability ● Reflect upon how to improve teaching practice based upon student work/data, assignments, observation of instruction and dialogue with colleagues ● Revise instruction based upon student achievement data
- 4. Principles: Classroom Assessment and Reflection Teacher Characteristics: Instruction ● Uncovers prior experience and understanding; anticipates confusion beforehand by correcting conceptual misunderstandings re: the natural and physical world ● Reflects on instruction and makes adjustments as student learning occurs Teacher Characteristics: Assessment ● Co-develops scoring guides/rubrics with students and provides adequate modeling to make clear the expectations for quality performance ● Guides students to apply rubrics to assess their performance and identify improvement strategies
- 5. Principles: Classroom Assessment and Reflection Teacher Characteristics: Providing Feedback and Guiding Student Self-Assessment ● Guides students to apply rubrics to assess their performance and identify improvement strategies ● Provides regular and timely feedback to students and parents that moves learners forward ● Allows students to use feedback to improve their work before a grade is assigned ● Facilitates students in self- and peer-assessment
- 6. Readings for Module 7 EdWeek: What happens When Students Design Their Own Assessments https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2017/05/24/what-happens-when-students-design-their-own.html NEA- Students Creating Test Questions http://www.nea.org//tools/tips/Students-Creating-Test-Questions.html The Student-Developed Quiz https://www.nactateachers.org/images/The_Student-Developed_Quiz_or_Exam-__Scaffolding_Higher-Order_Thinking.pdf Edutopia: Bringing Student-Choice Assessment to Science Classes https://www.edutopia.org/article/bringing-student-choice-assessment-science-classes
- 7. Practical Applications for Course/Curriculum Designers Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning Dimensions of Learning Framework- Exploratorium Tinkering Studio
- 8. Assessment of Learning Project-Based Learning Assessment Practices Formative Assessments - Types of formative assessments and tools for facilitating formative assessment of learning Collaborative Assessments Summative Assessments Videos: Presentations of Learning at High Tech High
- 9. The Assignments - Module 7 Discussion Forum: Discussion Forum: In project-based learning, where the main focus of assessment is the exhibition/presentation of learning model, what is the place for more traditional test-based assessments- should these be individual or collaborative? ● Your post - by Wednesday, 6/24/20 at 11:59pm ● Responses to 2 peer posts by Sunday, 6/28/20 at 11:59pm TECHNOLOGY: ● Create a 1 Minute Video advertisement/promotion for your unit- Why should students
- 10. The Assignments - Curriculum Assignment for Module 7: Edit and revise lessons in Unit Plan, editing as needed details on assessment, differentiated instruction (reading disabilities, English-language learners, and gifted and talented), and curriculum integration (noted where more than one content area is introduced in the lesson) ● Include in your Unit plan lesson plans examples of three(3) different types of age- appropriate assessments, which can include formative assessments/exit tickets,a quiz using Google Forms, a student project video, and a Presentation of Learning. ● State the percentage of the unit grade based on project work, traditional assessments, and homework(if given). Note: Final Unit Plan, with all revisions, is submitted to both Blackboard and also to Live Text. ● Submit finished Unit Plan to Blackboard and LiveText by Sunday, June 28 at 11:59pm
- 11. The Assignments - Unit Technology Summary Revise and Complete as needed Section II of the Unit Plan, detailing application of digital literacy frameworks, edtech equipment needs, application software, and media resources used in your unit. ● Updated Unit Plan revised and re-submitted to Blackboard by Sunday, June 28 at 11:59pm