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Formative Assessment: Understanding Fractions
Fourth grade math teacher Melissa Romano uses a formative assessment process during a lesson on fractions. First, she clarifies the intended learning by connecting to the students' prior knowledge and sharing an "I can" statement with them. Next, students work with learning partners on a fractions task. While they work,
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Formative Assessment: Collaborative Discussions
Fourth grade teacher Ms. Bouchard uses a formative assessment process during a lesson on collaborative discussions. First, she prompts the students to think about what makes an effective collaborative discussion. After, they review the learning goals and success criteria. Next, they begin their discussion of the book Tuck Everlasting. During
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Formative Assessment: Understanding Congruence
High school math teacher April Pforts uses a formative assessment process during a lesson on congruence. First, she clarifies the intended learning by reviewing the learning goals and activating students' prior knowledge. Next, students work in pairs and use a geometry software program to prove two triangles are congruent. Then,
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Formative Assessment: Proportional Relationships
Seventh grade math teacher Charles Elsdon uses a formative assessment process during a lesson on proportional relationships. First, he reviews the learning goals and success criteria, as well as rubrics developed the day before. Next, students work in groups to find multiple solution paths for a percent increase/decrease problem. Finally,
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Introducing The Formative Assessment Deep Dive: Take It And Try It!
Finding teaching resources online can often feel like a scavenger hunt. Even when searching one particular area of teaching, there are videos here, blogs there, and various conversations floating around social media. With such a variety of resources, it can take a great deal of time to learn in a
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Formative Assessment Resources: Try Them Today, Tomorrow, or Sometime Soon
Recently, Teaching Channel brought you into classrooms where teachers and students are using formative assessment to adjust ongoing teaching and learning strategies to improve student learning:
We partnered with Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium to bring you videos of teachers using formative assessment as a deliberate four-step process.
In Engaging Students with Productive
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Letting Students Grapple: Formative Assessment
Editor's Note: Math teachers across the country are learning about the power of formative assessment in their classrooms. In this video series, we bring you an opportunity to see formative assessment in action, with the help of math consultant Ann Shannon and resources from the Mathematics Assessment Project (MAP). Ann
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Checking For Understanding with Formative Assessments
As teachers, we all know what it feels like to grade a pile of tests and discover the unsettling truth that our students did not perform as well as we had hoped or predicted. For instance, after three of four weeks of teaching the Pythagorean Theorem, we find out that
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Formative Assessment Practices to Support Student Learning
The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium is an organization of member states committed to providing tools and resources that support teaching and learning. The three core components of the Smarter Balanced Assessment System are summative assessments, interim assessments, and formative assessment practices. The videos in this series demonstrate how teachers implement
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Listening & Speaking: Formative Assessment
Sarah Horwitz explains how she uses a checklist to formatively assess listening and speaking skills during academic conversations. She uses the checklist to target specific goals, and says that her use of the checklist encourages the students to focus on those goals.
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Formative Assessment and Monitoring Progress Part 1
Headteacher Sue Courbet believes that to improve value they need to get children to enjoy math more. They've trained staff to deliver much more practical activities and have pushed speaking and listening in the math classroom.
We see how senior staff, including the math coordinator, are linking the schools inquiry-based approach
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A Different Approach to Formative Assessment Makes Practice Time Count
Want to spend class time wisely? Formative assessments can help. The trick: taking the time to analyze the data and put it to use. You can do this in any subject area, but we'll start with an example from teaching math.
Let's say my class is working on quadratic equations and
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Sharing Formative Assessment Notes
Fifth grade co-teachers Kris Carey and Jessica Hegg take, share, and assess their conferring notes. They both carry clipboards throughout the day and take notes on them while they confer with students. At the end of the day, they assess the notes and use them to plan instruction. They also
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Using Tech Tools for Formative Assessment
Joshua Kwon explains how he uses technology to engage and formatively assess his students. He explains how tech tools can be used to easily gather and analyze student data. In addition, tech tools can be used for communicating with students and families.
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Tch Tips: Three Ways to Formatively Assess Content and Language
As educators, we all know how important it is to assess student learning. Often, formative assessment strategies focus on student understanding of content learning. But what about language learning?
Whether or not you have ELLs in your classroom, our students are always improving their language skills. Why not try a formative
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Formative Assessment and Monitoring Progress Part 2
Senior staff at Great Barr Primary School is implementing an inquiry-based approach to learning mathematics. Teaching assistants deliver one-to-one interventions with students who have barriers in their maths understanding, feeding back to teachers.
The video looks at assessment and ongoing monitoring of student progress during the school day. Staff then holds
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Formative Assessment Using the U-P-S Strategy
Geometry teacher Tereze Mickle uses the U-P-S strategy to assess her students' understanding. Through the U-P-S strategy, students work on understanding, planning, and solving problems before checking their work. Tereze explains how each step of the process gives her information about her students' learning.
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Math Journals as Formative Assessment
I'm a huge fan of writing in math class! While I was teaching, I had my 5th graders write in their math journals every single day. Whether they used the journals before the lesson to write down estimations, during class to show their reasoning through a problem, or at the
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Dial Up Your Formative Assessment Technique
In my role as assessment coach and consultant, I have had many conversations about the differences between formative assessment as a form of testing, and formative assessment strategies that become part of instructional pedagogy. A common misconception among educators is the use of formative assessment as a noun, when in
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Common Issues with Linear Equations
Eighth grade students in Susie Morehead's math class solve linear equations in two variables. First, the students work on tasks individually. Then, they work on the tasks with a group. Finally, they collaboratively analyze the work of other students and discuss the solutions.
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Formative Teaching and Learning
Everyone in education has heard of formative assessment. At first, we may think of it as something we collect and reflect on after school, such as an exit ticket or other quick assessment. But what if we shift thinking of it as an after class event to a during class
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Common Issues with Transformations
Students in Meghan Mekita's tenth grade geometry class work in pairs to understand transformations. Meghan comes to class with questions based on student performance on the pre-assessment and starts class with an introduction exercise. Next, students work in pairs on an activity where they must demonstrate their understanding of transformations
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Grading with the Common Core
High school ELA teacher Esther Wu shares how she assesses her students using the Common Core Standards. Esther shares how she sets up her grade book using the language of the Common Core. Esther uses the Common Core as a way to communicate expectations and monitor progress when working with