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Rick Wormeli: Formative and Summative Assessment

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one of these that comes up when you get it a different class love on one standards-based is you have to begin to wave formative versus summative assessment of summative assessment is actually anti-climatic it really refers to post learning after all is said and done since the final declaration usually there's not a lot of capacity to go back and revise one's efforts and be assessed and accredited a new but one thing the teachers forget is it something that was intended to be summative child does poorly for whatever reason you're allowed to make it a formative assessment some of the just something that was Simon it now becomes formative that's okay it's within your prerogative but what about formative assessment of the two teachers to spend the majority of their time designing there's summative assessments as if that was the most important aspect for really its formative assessment that's the most important aspect greatest impact on student on feedback to the teacher everything Enterprise of teaching and learning really boils down to that formative assessment can kids learn stop grades yeah can you learn without formative assessment and the fee bet that comes from it not at all sir size that in fact I would suggest the teacher when is the Sandman a time if not more designing formative assessment instead of summative assessment but what is this formative assessment formative assessment office ongoing assessment is the checkpoints along the way but here's the kicker the best formative assessment actually involves descriptive feedback not just hey thank you for finishing on time no it was you had your supplies you able to do this and this and this and that helps all of us it's kind of like a Jim Faye and his love and logic books point and describe National Association secondary school principals and many other folks were into assessment talk about three aspects of of descriptive back you help the kid discover or you point it out yourself  what was the goal what was the original intent the objective where are you in relation to it and what are we going to do close that Gap three different parts of good descriptive feedback when it can take that and use it we find it formative assessment is any assessment this where the kid is allowed to revise his efforts in light of that that feedback and then be assessed and accredited Anew prepster summary hang in there as well but it's on going and that's the focus if our focus is summative assessment students don't learn as well Dylan William what a great searches in that he did this wonderful Manifesto inside the black box with Paul black and man it turned America on on its ear with in 1998 we start looking at formative assessment and started transforming schools so how do we get feedback the kids is their formative assessment my lesson plans great lessons I should be able to circle the formal formative assessment and feedback going to students there's also informal you know where you observe maybe cuz some feedback right there in the spur the moment but I should see lots of checks friender standing and kids getting that feedback in fact Bob Marzano and many others talk about the the size the impact of some decision and it turns out the effect is much greater if you do an assessment and is going to be descriptive feedback if there's no feedback it turns out the assessment that task assignment don't have much instructional value compared to win there's feedback so the same planning Braff as I design my assessment design how will students get feedback on this at how will inform my lessons in fact I should be able to walk down a hallway and stop a teacher cold you don't know I'm coming they don't know the questions coming and say how did formative assessment inform one of your decisions today or this week with a student of subset of students or what class and the teacher should feel very comfortable I found out this about these students I decided to do that that's one of the big pillars of differentiate struction and it turns out fashions for teachers focus on 400 of assessment test scores go up if you use that as an indicator but really mastry's tune achievement it all goes up and again wonder what goes on learned because the teacher didn't get into didn't understand didn't apply formative assessment principles

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