Examining+on+Assessment+Strategies

To help plan for ongoing student-centered assessment in your classroom, take a short formative self-assessment. This will help you focus on areas of strength as well as areas in which you would like to improve as you develop your assessment plan.

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**WebQuest Activity on Assessment Strategies**

You have completed important steps that focus on student learning in your unit. You and your partner had · Identified standards and wrote learning objectives · Developed Curriculum Framing Questions · Decide on a student – centered task and technology product to develop 21st century skills of the students Now, imagine your students doing the project in your unit. Because of the complexity of problems to be solved, students may struggle to finish the task, how can you record progress on doing the activity? In this activity, you will read varied methods of assessment and think about how you will incorporate assessment strategies into your unit. With assessment embedded through out the lesson, teacher learn more about their students needs and adjust instruction to improve learning. Working in pair, you will create an assessment timeline to illustrate how you will utilize on – going assessment in your unit plan. With assessment embedded throughout a unit of instruction, teachers learn more about their students' needs and can adjust instruction to improve student achievement. Step 1. Choose your role. · **//Gauging student needs//** · **//Encouraging self direction and collaboration//** · **//Monitoring Progress//** || · **//Checking Understanding//** · **//Demonstrating Understanding//** || Step 2. Read the Varied Assessment Strategies You will visit Intel Education Assessing Project resource [] Visit the link on the purpose of assessment assigned to you in Step 1. As you read the resource, think about how you can use or modify assessment instrument in your unit. To do this, please fill up the note card in each specific role. Assessor 1 Use these strategies prior to instruction to help determine a student’s background experiences, skills, attitudes, and misconceptions. These strategies help to assess each student’s learning needs and assist students in making connections between what they already know (prior knowledge) and what they will be learning. ||  || What strategies are you considering to gauge student readiness for the unit? || Use these strategies to assess the ability of students to take ownership of their learning, demonstrate interpersonal skills, produce higher-quality work, understand feedback, and assess classmates' work. ||  || How could you help students stay on track during a project? What monitoring and reporting instruments would you need to create? || Use these strategies to help students stay on-track during a project. Students become more self-managing when they are provided with these assessment methods and instruments as they complete open-ended tasks. These strategies also assist in determining when and where students need extra help or additional instruction. Many of these strategies provide documentation of learning growth over time. ||  || How will you involve students in understanding the project expectations and criteria? What assessments could you use to help students collaborate with other students and provide effective feedback? || Assessor 2 Use these strategies to check for student understanding as they progress through the project. Students also use these strategies to think about their own learning. The same method can be used for both purposes, but it is important to provide explicit questions and prompts to help students think about what and how they are learning. ||  || What assessment strategies will help students reflect on their learning (metacognition) and help you to check understanding? || Use these strategies to assess student understanding and skill at the end of the project. Two different types of strategies are in this category: Step 3. Create your Assessment Timeline A. You and your partner will now work together to create the Assessment Timeline for your unit plan. An assessment timeline is a good way to visually represent the sequence of assessments throughout a unit. To help you plan an assessment timeline, view sample timelines on this site: [] B. Now you will make your assessment timeline. Fill up the template below C. Review Working in groups reflect on the following question. //Have we considered varied type of assessment strategies to assess the important learning objectives of our project?//
 * Introduction**
 * Task**
 * Process**
 * Role || Task ||
 * Assessor 1 || You will read on the purpose of assessment on
 * Assessor 2 || You will read on the purpose of assessment on
 * Purpose of Assessment || Examples of Assessment Instrument || Ideas on Adapting the Instrument ||
 * · **//Gauging student needs//**
 * · **//Encouraging self direction and collaboration//**
 * · **//Monitoring Progress//**
 * Purpose of Assessment || Examples of Assessment Instrument || Ideas on Adapting the Instrument ||
 * · **//Checking Understanding//**
 * · **//Demonstrating Understanding//**
 * Products and performances
 * Portfolios and student-led conferences ||  || How will you and your students know they have met the learning goals? ||
 * ** Before project work begins ** |||| ** Students work on projects and complete tasks ** |||| ** After project work is completed ** ||
 * · [[image:file:///Users/amybuan/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/msoclip/0clip_image002.png width="71" height="96"]] ||  · [[image:file:///Users/amybuan/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/msoclip/0clip_image004.png width="71" height="96"]]  ||  · [[image:file:///Users/amybuan/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/msoclip/0clip_image006.png width="72" height="139"]]  ||  · [[image:file:///Users/amybuan/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/msoclip/0clip_image008.png width="72" height="139"]]  ||  · [[image:file:///Users/amybuan/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/msoclip/0clip_image010.png width="69" height="130"]]  ||  · [[image:file:///Users/amybuan/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/msoclip/0clip_image012.png width="69" height="130"]]  ||   ||   ||
 * ** Assessment Summary ** ||
 * [[image:file:///Users/amybuan/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/msoclip/0clip_image014.png width="520" height="90"]] ||
 * · [[image:file:///Users/amybuan/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/msoclip/0clip_image002.png width="71" height="96"]] ||  · [[image:file:///Users/amybuan/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/msoclip/0clip_image004.png width="71" height="96"]]  ||  · [[image:file:///Users/amybuan/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/msoclip/0clip_image006.png width="72" height="139"]]  ||  · [[image:file:///Users/amybuan/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/msoclip/0clip_image008.png width="72" height="139"]]  ||  · [[image:file:///Users/amybuan/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/msoclip/0clip_image010.png width="69" height="130"]]  ||  · [[image:file:///Users/amybuan/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/msoclip/0clip_image012.png width="69" height="130"]]  ||   ||   ||
 * ** Assessment Summary ** ||
 * [[image:file:///Users/amybuan/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/msoclip/0clip_image014.png width="520" height="90"]] ||

//Are students engage in assessment process?// D. Share your assessment timeline. Pair and share your assessment timeline. Remember be a critical friend in giving feedback J Congratulations, you have created an assessment plan considering the five purposes of assessment that support students achieve success in their making project.
 * Conclusion**