1. What is formative assessment?
It is the continued assessment of a student's development dealing with a specific subject.
2. What is the CENTRAL purpose of formative assessment?
It is to hopefully identify what the student is learning and to help to understand the teacher's goals.
3. Connect a best practice in formative assessment to one research-based strategy.
The books states that formative assessment "provides feedback that engenders motivation and leads to improvement." I feel that it is similar to research-based strategy "Reinforcing Effort". This strategy states that "achievement can increase when teachers show the connection between effort and success."
4. Give an example of how a specific assessment can be used formatively and summatively.
You can provide you students with a rubric for their assessment. This will allow them to make sure they have all the necessary items in their project to earn the best possible grade.
5. Give an example from you field placement related to formative assessment and timing.
I taught a guitar class and I used a music program called SmartMusic. This is a computer based program that allows me to create a playing assignment and publish it online. The students then log onto SmartMusic to complete the assignment. This program tells the student how fast they need to play the excerpt, shows the music to be played, and can contain an accompaniment audio track to play along to. After the student has completed the assignment it is submitted to a file that only the teacher can view. The teacher can listen to the recording and can also see the accuracy of notes as well. The teacher can then assess the students work and send them a grade directly to their online grading system (i.e. Live Grades).
6. What are some strategies to help formative assessment be more effective when providing students with feedback?
The text mentions the following strategies:
7. Name two advantages to high quality formative assessment.
8. What are some challenges to implementing high quality formative assessment?
These assessments can be very time consuming for a teacher to create.
It is the continued assessment of a student's development dealing with a specific subject.
2. What is the CENTRAL purpose of formative assessment?
It is to hopefully identify what the student is learning and to help to understand the teacher's goals.
3. Connect a best practice in formative assessment to one research-based strategy.
The books states that formative assessment "provides feedback that engenders motivation and leads to improvement." I feel that it is similar to research-based strategy "Reinforcing Effort". This strategy states that "achievement can increase when teachers show the connection between effort and success."
4. Give an example of how a specific assessment can be used formatively and summatively.
You can provide you students with a rubric for their assessment. This will allow them to make sure they have all the necessary items in their project to earn the best possible grade.
5. Give an example from you field placement related to formative assessment and timing.
I taught a guitar class and I used a music program called SmartMusic. This is a computer based program that allows me to create a playing assignment and publish it online. The students then log onto SmartMusic to complete the assignment. This program tells the student how fast they need to play the excerpt, shows the music to be played, and can contain an accompaniment audio track to play along to. After the student has completed the assignment it is submitted to a file that only the teacher can view. The teacher can listen to the recording and can also see the accuracy of notes as well. The teacher can then assess the students work and send them a grade directly to their online grading system (i.e. Live Grades).
6. What are some strategies to help formative assessment be more effective when providing students with feedback?
The text mentions the following strategies:
- Emphasizes the quality rather than the quantity of student work.
- Prizes giving advice and guidance over giving grades.
- Avoids comparing students in favor of enabling individual students to assess their own learning.
- Fosters dialogues that explore understanding rather than lectures that present information.
- Encourage multiple iterations of an assessment cycle each found on a few issues.
- Provides feedback that engenders motivation and leads to improvement.
7. Name two advantages to high quality formative assessment.
- "It helps identify students who are struggling with particular tasks or operating under misconceptions."
- "...formative assessment offers increased feelings of confidence and control."
8. What are some challenges to implementing high quality formative assessment?
These assessments can be very time consuming for a teacher to create.
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