Learn about SBAC's definition for formative assessment and tech tools that can be used to gather student data, give feedback, and capture student thinking.
Formative Assessment Strategies Utilizing Technology, NW Math Conference, 11 October 2014
1. Formative
Assessment
Strategies Utilizing Technology
1
By Patty Stephens
Secondary Math Instructional Specialist,
Northshore School District
2. Welcome!
Some Nuts and Bolts…
Participant Materials on DropBox
•http://goo.gl/KkCvWk
Our Parking Lot:
•https://todaysmeet.com/FAwithTech
3. Goals for Today…
• Background and Philosophy
• What is Formative
Assessment?
• Tech Tools for Formative
Assessment
- Student Response Systems
- Feedback Tools
- Capturing Students’ Thinking
5. Patty likes teaching!
• 17 years in the classroom
– 4 years teaching Junior High
– 13 years teaching High School
• Currently the Secondary Math Instructional
Specialist for Northshore School District
• National Board Certification – AYA-Math
• Assessment Specialist
• Passionate about Ed Tech
6. Two Events that
Shaped My Teaching
Assessment TrainingS Iunssttaitinuateb l(eA CTlIa)ssroom +
7. My Philosophy
Use technology to
Assess FOR Learning
“How do you know
that they know?”
8. Assessment FOR Learning
Research-based
Assessment
Strategies
Appropriate
Instructional
Technologie
s
+
= Engaged students!
9. Assessment FOR Learning
Research-based
Assessment
Strategies
= Immediate
Feedback
Appropriate
Instructional
Technologie
s
+
10. Assessment FOR Learning
Research-based
Assessment
Strategies
Appropriate
Instructional
Technologie
s
+
= Informed Decision Making
11. What is Formative Assessment?
• A deliberate process used by teachers
and students during instruction that
provides actionable feedback that is used
to adjust ongoing teaching and learning
strategies to improve students’
attainment of curricular learning
targets/goals.
17. Formative Assessment Tech Tools
Criteria:
• A process
• Used by teachers
and students
• During instruction
• Provides actionable
feedback
• Used to adjust
teaching and learning
Types of Tools:
1. Student response
systems
2. Feedback tools
3. Tools to capture
student thinking
23. Trig Functions of a 3-4-5 Triangle
• Exit Ticket
1. Your name
2. How well did you understand today’s
material?
3. What did you learn in today’s class?
4. Please answer the teacher’s question.
Suggestions:
•Solve a problem.
•What did you find challenging today?
•What helped you learn today?
24. Plickers
https://www.plickers.com/
•Good for quick checks for
understanding
•Multiple choice responses only
•Tech requirements:
– one teacher device with camera
(iPad or smartphone)
– Printed student cards: 5x8 or 8x11
25. How Familiar are you with DOK?
A. “DOK? What does that stand for?”
B. …
C. …
D. “I could teach a course on DOK!”
Live View of Patty’s Classroom
28. The Scrambler
• Dan Meyer’s Scrambler
– http://vimeo.com/58330400
29. Position at 2:35
Position at 2:20
Make a guess:
What will the red
scrambler's position
be at the end of the
ride?
•Poll:
http://activeprompt.org/poll/YNWBX
•Responses:
http://activeprompt.org/view/MFNEU
30. Answer to the Scrambler
• View Act 3
– http://vimeo.com/58330403
31. ActivePrompt
More Examples:
•How are you feeling?
– http://activeprompt.org/poll/ZBRJG
– http://activeprompt.org/poll/AUHVW
•What’s the answer?
– http://activeprompt.org/poll/KCMPH
32. Other Student Response Systems
• Everyslide https://everyslide.com
–Collects audience responses while
presenting Powerpoint
–Downside: Powerpoints become static, no
video or animation
• Kahoot! https://getkahoot.com/
• Geddit
• Google Forms
33. Feedback tools
For Providing Actionable and/or Automatic Feedback to Students
35. Providing Actionable Feedback
Classkick www.getclasskick.com
•Free iPad app
•As students work on iPad, teachers can see
their live work and give instant private feedback
•Review by Dan Meyer
40. Turn and Talk:
•What actionable feedback would you give this
student?
•What adjustments would you make in your
instruction based on this work?
41. Mathcasts
A MathCast is a screen recording that
captures a person’s voice and handwriting
as s/he explains a mathematical concept or
solves a problem.
Student Mathcast:
•Area of a Triangle by 5th grader Taylor
42. Right Triangle Trigonometry
Mathcast: Right Triangle Problem by Mark
Turn and Talk:
•What actionable feedback would you give
Mark?
•What adjustments would you make in
your instruction?
43. Screencasting Resources
Recording software:
• My personal favorite:
Camtasia Studio
• Free web-based:
Screenr.com
• Smartboard: built-in
capability
Whiteboard software:
• Free web-based:
https://awwapp.com/
• Free for iPad:
Educreations or
Doceri
44. Our Agenda…
• Background and Philosophy
• What is Formative
Assessment?
• Tech Tools for Formative
Assessment
- Student Response Systems
- Feedback Tools
- Capturing Students’ Thinking
45. Turn & Talk
• Which of the tech tools you
saw today might you try?
• Do you have another tech tool you
use in your own classroom for
formative assessment?
• Can you think of a different way you
could use one of these technologies
in your classroom?
https://todaysmeet.com/FAwithTech
Assessment Specialist:
2004-2010: WHS Assessment Team
2005-2006: Sustainable Classroom Grant
Focused on use of technology support implementation of research-based instructional strategies shown to increase student achievement
2008: presenter at Assessment Training Institute’s Summer Workshop (http://ati.pearson.com/)
2010-2012: High School Mathematics Assessment Specialist for WA State OSPI
Ed Tech:
M. Ed. – Education/instructional technology
Numerous classroom tech grants:
Gates Grant, Sustainable Classroom Grant, BestBuy TEACH Award, Qwest Foundation Learning Technology Grant
Presenter, Trainer and Consultant:
Student response systems, Moodle, screencasts, graphing calculators, and more
Definition from SBAC Digital Library
The formative assessment process
(adapted from Smarter Balanced Digital Library)
Image from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Why_did_the_chicken_cross_the_road%3F.JPG
Influences and effect sizes related to student achievement
CPS:
Formative: practice tests (study guide printout)
Summative: quizzes, actual paper tests
jeopardy
Line-ups
Order of Ops from Kagan
Hot Potatoes
Whiteboard movies
Math Survivor
Composition of Ordinates
Harmonic Analysis:
I am anti-work-too-hard!
You can use Socrative with a printed test without typing in any questions or answer choices.
Plickers vote
Scan with iPad
Live view
Image from http://owegopennysaver.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/WGOP_Candor11.jpg
Cartoon from https://www.flickr.com/photos/karlhorton/1903050006/ , by Karl Horton
Used without modification
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/
CPS:
practice tests for feedback (study guide printout)
jeopardy
Line-ups
Cooperative Learning & Mathematics (Kagan)
Hot Potatoes
Polynomial graphs
Sorting game
matching functions and graphs
Data collection:
M&M lab: pool and sum data in Excel
Sweet Treats : combine data for class graph
Turn and Talk:
What actionable feedback would you give this student?
What adjustments would you make in your instruction based on this work?
Movies from A Watched Cup Never Cools (Key Curriculum Press)
Be prepared to share out!
Thank you!
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Dismiss at 3 pm