1. Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 1 What Assessment for Learning Looks Like in the Classroom

2. Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 2 What formative assessment practices are you familiar with? With a partner, list all you can think of that you have seen, done, or read about. Consider both teachers and students as decision-makers.

3. Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 3 A key premise is that for students to be able to improve, they must have the capacity to monitor the quality of their own work during actual production. This in turn requires that students: Know what high quality work looks like Be able to objectively compare their work to the standard Have a store of tactics to make work better based on their observations --Royce Sadler, 1989

4. Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 4 Assessment for learning meets students’ information needs: Where am I going? Where am I now? How can I close the gap?

5. Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 5 Assessment for Learning Strategies Where am I going? 1.Provide a clear statement of the learning target 2.Use examples and models Where am I now? 3.Offer regular descriptive feedback 4.Teach students to self-assess and set goals How can I close the gap? 5.Design focused lessons 6.Teach students focused revision 7.Engage students in self-reflection; let them keep track of and share their learning

6. Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 6 Activity Directions Assign one of the seven strategies to each person at your table. Appoint a table monitor to pay attention to time. Read the explanation of your assigned strategy. Be ready to explain the key idea of your strategy and how it addresses the AFL key question. Share your explanation with your table. Note ideas that are familiar and ideas that are new to you.

7. Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 7 Which of the ideas from the Seven Strategies are NOT NEW to you? Which ideas from the Seven Strategies are new to you?

8. Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 8 Assessment for Learning Strategies Where am I going? 1.Provide a clear statement of the learning target 2.Use examples and models Where am I now? 3.Offer regular descriptive feedback 4.Teach students to self-assess and set goals How can I close the gap? 5.Design focused lessons 6.Teach students focused revision 7.Engage students in self-reflection; let them keep track of and share their learning

9. Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 9 New Idea: Formative assessment can and should be done BY STUDENTS as well as by teachers. The key to improvement is how students and teachers use assessment information.

10. Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 10 Assessment for Learning: A GPS system for students, too.