MME-562 Seminar: Issues in Mathematics: Using Advanced Educational Technology to support Data-Driven Decision Making.

THE WEB Warm UP activity Log-into ASSISTments   1234 Log into Google Docs  Open Google doc See example 8817 Go to Build input your number and make any edits you think are good.

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Agenda THE WEB! Assessing Activities. Making FAC Decisions together  Final Project  Example, Visit Tignor Reflection on Transformative Assessment by W. James Popham Observations from the field Features updates, DDD and ARRS Fellows

Sharing Formative Assessment Cycle with Reflection built in Present your class Routine Do the Math for the specifics you will be presenting. Present Objective(s) and describe lesson Share the data ask a question about the data, give everyone time to observe the data. Have the participants share what they would do next. The sharing can be sky high or very practical. We need to do BOTH. Share what you did in response to the data.

TransFormative Assessment Reading Reflection Chapter 2: Learning Progressions.  The main idea here is that you need to be assessing as you go along towards a larger goal.  This goes beyond the scope of our work here so we are going to focus on Objectives for each lesson.

TransFormative Assessment Reading Reflection Chapter 3: Teachers Instructional Adjustments, 4 Steps:  Step 1. Identify adjustment occasions  Step 2. Select assessments  Step 3. Establish adjustment triggers  Step 4. Make instructional adjustments

TransFormative Assessment Reading Reflection ASSISTments DDD (Data Driven Decisions)  Step 1. Identify adjustment occasions  Step 2. Select assessments  Step 3. Establish adjustment triggers  Step 4. Make instructional adjustments

Proving ARRS Works The Study  You pick two distinct areas you want to assess using Skill Building Sets.  Area 1  Area 2  All your students get skill building on those two areas but:  Group A---Gets ARRS for Area 1  Group B---Gets ARRS for Area 2  We post test them 5 months late and see who knows the material best and by how much

Comments from the field? On the front  Something that is going well On the back  Something that is troubling you

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Fellow’s Work Take this time to do some planning with your fellow.  I will come around and answer questions. At 12:15 we will share the routines fellows are doing in your classes.