1. Using Data to Drive Reading Instruction
Formative Assessment
What data sources do you have at your school? Make a list. Formative or Summative Then make a table list on chart paper. As we go through the session, consider these assessments and decide if they are formative or summative.
Using Data to Drive Reading Instruction

2. Improve student performance by 15 -25 percentile points, 2-4 grade equivalents
What will do the above?
Best Educational Intervention
Research by Black and William
K-College all subjects
Gains realized by students whose teachers rely on formative assessment
Move US from middle of 42 nations to top 5

3. Increase achievement is four to five times greater than reduced class size.
Ehrenburg, Brewer, Gamoran and Willms, 2001
K-College all subjects
Gains realized by students whose teachers rely on formative assessment
Move US from middle of 42 nations to top 5

4. Make a judgment about level of competence or achievement
Summative Assessment
At the end.

5. Gather evidence to improve student learning
Formative Assessment
Formative Assessment
Informal and formal
Instrument is not formative, it is the use of the information to adjust teaching
Formative assessment is a process
Gather evidence used to improve learning

6. Use video from PD 360 Explaining the focus of KY “Keeping an Eye on Assessment” 9 min
How will the focus of classroom assessment change?
Debrief
During student learning
Teacher and Student information on performance
Opportunities for correction
Formative Assessment

7. Sentence Stems
Formative Assessment is…….
Summative Assessment is……

8. Formative Assessment? Quiz Running Record Exit Slip/Admit Slip Project
15 minutes
Table sort of assessement vignettes Recorder, person why you made the decision. Share.
Could be either, depending on what you do with the results.
Quiz
Running Record
Exit Slip/Admit Slip
Project
Observation
End of Unit Assessment (Common)
Questioning and Dialogue
Aimsweb
DiBels
State Assessment

9. “ Classroom Assessment: Minute by Minute, Day by Day”
15 minutes
Jigsaw the Article “Classroom Assessment: Minute by Minute, Day by Day” by Leahy, Lyon, Thompson and Wiliam
Number off tables 1-4 and read your section. Discuss your section.
As a group, decide on the most important word or phrase form each section and record them on chart paper

10. Attributes of Effective Formative Assessment
Clear Learning Target
Communicated to students
Specific Feedback
Reflection
Collaboration
15 minutes
Handout Formative Assessment in Action 1 per person.
Highlight each attribute in your vignette: Is it Formative Assessment?
What attributes do you see in your vignette?
Share.
Discussion : different ways each attribute appears across vignettes
Break

11. Think of a time when you learned a new skill, sport, ect
Think of a time when you learned a new skill, sport, ect. What did your teacher, coach, instructor do to improve your performance?
Turn and talk

12. Break
8 minute

13. What Students Need to Know
Where am I going?
Where am I now?
How can I close the gap?
Clear Target
Assessment
Specific Feedback

14. Student Friendly Targets
Where am I going?
Student friendly language
Attainable, may need to be broken into smaller steps
Clear and stationary
You don’t need a student target for every learning target, Some are just for teachers
Think big concepts
Look at your learning target…Do you meet the criteria for a student friendly learning target?

15. Why Targets? Purposeful Good Consumers Monitor and Make adjustments
Select experiences, move toward target
Good consumers of resources
Adjust as learning is taking place

16. Four Types of Targets Knowledge Mastery Reasoning Proficiency
Skills: Performance
Ability to Create a Product
Put a variety of deconstructed standards on table and look at the type.
Also go over pg. 64 from CASL

17. Assessment must be purposeful.
What assessment methods would you use for your scenario?
Give out scenarios from p CASL. Assign each table a different scenario. Discussion.

18. Matching the Target to Assessment
What am I assessing?
Why am I assessing?
How will I assess?
Teachers look at their learning target and answer the 3 questions.

19. Agree or Disagree Formative Assessment is a process.
The best learning occurs incidentally .
We should only do formative assessments not summative.
Specific Feedback is crucial for formative assessment.
Formative assessment is ongoing during the learning process.
Stand up sit down : Agree stand up, disagree sit down
This is formative assessment. I could see what needed to be retaught and what had been mastered.

20. Quick and Easy Formative Assessment Ideas
White Boards
Thumbs up, Thumbs down
Wrap Up Cube
Traffic Light/Signal Cards
Sentence Stems
Card Sorting
Rate your Understanding
Human Continuum
Ask for others.
Look over handout ideas also. Generate a list of others.
Show them simple white boards
Make a wrap up cube
Make traffic signals/signal cards

21. Rethinking Bell Ringers
Human Continuum: I use bell ringers daily as a formative assessment.
What bell ringers do you use and are they formative the way they are currently used? How can you tweek them a little to make them formative?
How to make your Bell Ringers Formative:
Review, Prediction and Critical Thinking (turn and tell you neighbor)
Examples:
List the three most important points from todays lesson
What do you think will happen when Mr. Zuckerman sees the word Charolotte has written in her web?
If you were in the main characters situation, what would you do and why?
Describe a time when you have felt stifled.
Exit and Admit Slips

22. Rubrics Describes features of quality Just beginning to proficiency
Student friendly language
Match your targets
Good rubrics are descriptive rather than evaluative or qualitative.
Handout a few rubrics for discussion
Do they meet this criteria?

23. Self Assessment: Is it formative?
handouts

24. Concepts About Print Handout books 15 minutes
Concepts about print: Print contains a message, conventions, how books work, directionality, Hierachy of skills
Watch Kevin….What does he know about books?

25. Four Corners How often do you use running records?
Daily, weekly, monthly, never

26. Running Record Practice
Pass out Running Record book. 1 hour
Depending on group begin with how and then move to analyzing.
Self practice using student samples from “Where’s the Glitch?” by Shea
Analyzing

27. How can you use Running Records?

28. Phonemic Awareness Screening Test
How would I use this formatively?

29. Words correct per minute
One Minute Fluency
Words correct per minute
How would you use these formatively?

30. Stop and Reflect 4 minutes
Handout (Stop and Reflect) completed and then take a walk.

31. Contact Information
Go to resources and click on literacy folder