1. T-527 Fall 2005 Developing Curriculum for Deep Learning How is learning assessed? Ongoing assessment and educative evaluation 10 November 2005

2. T-527 Fall 2005 Goals for today Understand the roles of assessment in teaching for understanding Understand how to integrate ongoing assessment into your project and context Understand how to build a culture that promotes learning through ongoing assessment, including in T527 Understand how to apply new technologies to foster understanding

3. T-527 Fall 2005 Activities for today Reflect on mid-course feedback about T527 Analyze readings on assessment Revise T527 rubric regarding assessment Structure reflections on Shamsa’s Collaborate on designing OA for one project Learn how to use the Ladder of Feedback Workshop time: consult and work on projects Classmates share a resource

4. T-527 Fall 2005 Perspectives on Educative Assessment Wiggins and McTighe. Backward Design –Identify desired results: enduring understandings –Determine acceptable evidence: authentic performance tasks and sources of evidence –Plan learning experiences and instruction Norton and Wiburg. Identify, document, and judge learning outcomes –Process is as important as product –Authentic assessment tasks embedded in instruction –Multiple opportunities and forms for students to demonstrte understaing –Make criteria public, engage learners in defining critiera –Align goals, instruction, assessment Wiske et al. : Ongoing Assessment with New Technologies –Public criteria based on goals –Conducted frequently to generate suggestions for improvement –Embedded formal and informal assessments –Multiple sources: teacher, students, outside experts and coaches

5. T-527 Fall 2005 Technologies Support Educative Assessment Collect and display student work –Portfolios: product, process, progress –Authentic tasks Expand authentic audiences Keep guidelines, prompts, criteria in view Provide frequent feedback Enable revision

6. T-527 Fall 2005 Contrast and Compare Readings on Educative Assessment How do these authors view the role of assessment in designs for learning? –Purposes, relation to goals, roles of participants, strategies, tools What dilemmas will you face in attempting to integrate assessment into your context and project?

7. T-527 Fall 2005 Ladder of Feedback from Project Zero Clarify Value Offer concerns Provide Suggestions

8. T-527 Fall 2005 Consult on your projects How do your performances look in relation to the rubric? Plan ongoing assessment with the rubric criteria in mind How might you use technologies to enrich assessment? Use Ladder of Feedback