1. PRIJ, 3030 January the 22nd Assessment

2. Guiding questions… What are the implications for your general practices around planning and assessment? How will you design your assessments to support and mirror curriculum content? How will you create assessment tasks that address the varied needs of your students? How will you determine what student understanding will look like?

3. Social Studies - exemplars Let’s have a look at Social Studies exemplars Do these sample tasks reflect opportunities for students to demonstrate multiple intelligences? Do the tasks serve as effective tools to determine skills and knowledge? Would the tasks offer students ways of demonstrating higher levels of understanding?

4. Assessment After looking at the way in which the responses to the tasks are assessed, what questions are raised for you?

5. Descriptive Feedback Research has shown that feedback can have powerful positive effects on student learning and engagement Not all feedback supports learning, what makes feedback effective Effective feedback is directly connected to learning goals and success criteria which have been shared and clarified with students

6. Descriptive Feedback Teachers use descriptive feedback to help students to become increasingly less dependent on the teacher for feedback, and more able to monitor their own progress and determine next steps

7. From AERgains site http://www.edugains.ca/newsite/aer2/aervideo/planni ngassessmentwithinstruction.html http://www.edugains.ca/newsite/aer2/aervideo/selfas sessment.html http://www.edugains.ca/newsite/aer2/aervideo/descri ptivefeedback.html http://www.edugains.ca/newsite/aer2/aervideo/questi oning.html