1. Formative Assessment EDU 300 | Newberry College | Jennifer Morrison

2. Formative Assessment What are your questions before, during, and after instruction? What’s the difference between a formal and informal assessment? A formative and summative assessment? What are some formative strategies you can used to answer your important questions?

3. Lesson 2 Focus Questions What defines a formative assessment? What is the function of teachers’ questions? What are your questions before, during, and after instruction? How can summative assessments be used formatively? What are some formative strategies you can used to answer your important questions?

4. Teacher Questions What do you ask…  Before you begin an instructional unit?  During an instructional unit?  After an instructional unit (but before the summative assessment)? Effective teachers ask questions. Data are the answers to our questions. We design assessments to get the data we and our students need in order to progress.

5. What’s the Def? Formal Informal Assessment that is pre-designed like a survey, quiz, performance assessment, etc. (assessment has been written) Generally, the teacher has already decided and shares what a successful performance looks like in terms of points or a rubric. Assessment that may be pre-planned but student response or product is uncertain and/or little formal preparation is needed to conduct the assessment (answers to teacher questions, voting, post-it responses, etc.) Generally, the teacher has little preconceived idea what the response or product will be.

6. What’s the Def? Summative Formative Assessment administered at the end of a lesson or unit Used to evaluate learning Assessment administered during a lesson or unit Used to inform learning by the teacher and/or students

7. Formative Assessment Formative assessments can be… formal informal structured or unstructured, depending on what data is needed (i.e., depending on what questions are being asked). Any assessment can be used in a formative manner. Formative assessment is… A planned instructional strategy. A habit of mind. The foundation of a learning-oriented, student- centered classroom.

8. FormalInformal Formative Assessment Summative Assessment

9. 50 “Quick And Dirty” Formative Strategies The point of this jigsaw activity is for you to quickly and collaboratively gain knowledge of the 50+ formative strategies outlined in Dr. Laura Greenstein’s “Lexicon of Formative Assessment Strategies.” The full document can be accessed at http://assessmentnetwork.wikispaces.com

10. Points to Remember All of your objectives will need to be assessed (most by formative assessments). If you do enough formative assessment, you’ll know how you students will perform on the summative before you ever even give it.

11. Food for Thought When do we use formative assessments? When do we use summative assessments? How many formative assessments per class?

12. What’s Due?