Formative assessment

The Greenfield Union School district is using a variety of methods to ensure adequacy and equity was attained in the development of the local control accountability plan (LCAP) for teachers, parents, and students. In reviewing the Greenfield Union School District LCAP there were clear needs and metrics analyzed that were used to set goals to support the improvement of student success and safety. During the first stages of the LCAP implementation process the goal of district personnel was to…

Implications of Transactional Distance Theory for Online Competency-Based Education Competency-based education (CBE) has a long history, having been used for at least 30 years in vocational training (Garfolo & L’Huillier, 2016). With the increase in adult students using online education to earn credentials and enter or advance in career paths, some online programs are turning to CBE (Weise, 2014). Institutions using CBE in online programs must consider how the interaction made possible online…

place (Moore, 2009). This strategy was teacher centred and allowed the teaching team to take it in turns to teach something new to the children. A benefit of using this strategy was we were able to carry out initial assessment of the children we would be working with. The initial assessment allowed the teaching team to become familiar with the needs of individual children that is necessary for personalised learning. Whilst teaching, the teaching team used Dialogic teaching that is necessary…

facilitating engagement and motivation, and through the strategic use of assessment. Emotional well-being is central to student learning, as it is often found that engagement and motivation hinge on student well-being. Negative emotions act to sabotage the learning process, and it is for this reason that teachers should wholeheartedly attempt to promote safety and well-being within their classrooms. Additionally, assessment is a valuable tool for supporting the learning process, and provides…

Lesson Plan: Assess and Evaluate Explain how your assessment and evaluate section promotes differentiation. The assessment that I used is formative assessment. Students complete the model activity and then present it to the class. The model activity, this is where students create a 3d model on a poster using pipe cleaners, packing peanuts, glue, scissors, yarn, and markers. As it stated by Tomlinson (2000), “Offering manipulative or other hands-on supports for students who need them” (pg. 1)…

Question 1 1.0 Define performances assessment What are performance assessments? According to Scott King-Owen (2007) performance assessments imply that students are doing a complex task. The focus of a performance assessment is to see how well a student can apply his or her knowledge of content by using the skills that he or she has learned. Performance assessment is said by its advocators to be more in line with instruction than multiple-choice tests. With an emphasis on a closer similarity…

I will get each student results immediately and I’ll have an idea what points of the lesson need to be reviewed End of Lesson Assessment: • I will formally assess each student for understanding at the end of the lesson with the Exit…

begin to emulate them as they mature. I will assess student learning through two different forms of assessments, formative and summative. Formative assessments assess students’ knowledge before or during instruction through activities such as: homework assignments, in-class assignments, quizzes. Summative assessments assess students’ achievement after instruction in the form of cumulative assessments, such as final exams. I will engage students in constructive discussions of one another’s work,…

learning objectives, content, strategies and methods of instruction to elicit student achievement. In EDFO 487, I learned that differentiating instruction and assessments are valuable tools to employ. Since students learn in a variety of ways, it is reasonable to assess their knowledge through a variety of ways. Using various methods of assessments to gather student data to help guide instructional decisions is important to short range planning since it allows the teacher to make the…

Additionally, given the development of grit as an enabler of positive outcomes and the documented influence of achievement goals on student success, there is a need however to further understand the relationships among these variables as these variables have mainly been treated separately in the research literature and thus, little is known about how these personality variables relate to one another. Gutman & Schoon (2013) noted that “there is no single non-cognitive skill that predicts…