PLC WORKSHOP

Effective Assessment Practices

SMART GOALS of Session 1:
1. You will be able to discuss and provide examples of formative
assessments.
2. You will share your experiences using formative assessments.
3. You will implement a formative assessment in at least one of your
classes between this session and the next.
4. You will reflect upon your experiences giving this formative
assessment and be prepared to share your thoughts and insights
about the process.
 What is the difference between
ASSESSMENT and EVALUATION?

The goal of ASSESSMENT is to gather information/data

about student performance in order to inform teacher
choices for further instruction and creation of
educational experiences for students.
The goal of EVALUATION is to make a judgment about
the meaning of the data gathered.
What are FORMATIVE ASSESSMENTS?
FORMATIVE ASSESSMENTS PROVIDE:
● Information to both teachers and students about how
to improve the learning process while it’s happening.
● Teachers with the tools to monitor progress towards a
learning goal or objective.
● Valuable feedback to students about their progress.
● A means of examining learning outcomes in order to
inform future instruction.
 SMALL GROUP DISCUSSION TIME
1. Please arrange yourselves into groups of 4-5 people.
2. Each group will be been given a large poster sheet and
markers.
3. Over the next 15 minutes, discuss the ways you have
used formative assessments in the past, and make a
list of possible ways to implement formative
assessments in your classrooms.
4. Be prepared to present your list to everyone in the
room when your time is up.
 BETWEEN NOW AND OUR NEXT MEETING :
● Try a formative assessment practice that you’ve never tried
before.
● Reflect upon if or how this formative assessment has provided
you with data about your students’ learning.
Check out the following resources for inspiration:
EDUTOPIA Formative Assessment Examples
56 Examples of Formative Assessments
YouTube Webinar on Formative Assessments
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Effective Assessment Practices - SESSION 2
SMART GOALS of Session 2:
1. You will be able to discuss and provide examples of summative
assessments.
2. You will share your experiences using summative assessments.
3. You will implement a summative assessment in at least one of your
classes between this session and the next.
4. You will reflect upon your experiences giving this summative
assessment and be prepared to share your thoughts and insights about
the process.
 SMALL GROUP DISCUSSION TIME
1. Please arrange yourselves into groups of 4-5 people.
2. Each group will be been given a large poster sheet and
markers.
3. Over the next 15 minutes, discuss the ways you have
used formative assessments since our last meeting,
and make a list of these methods on your poster
sheet.
4. Be prepared to present your list to everyone in the
room when your time is up.
What are SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENTS?
SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENTS ARE GIVEN IN ORDER TO:
● Measure student mastery of learning standards
● Provide students with grades
● Collect useful, important information that fulfills a
specific purpose
● Conclude the end of a unit or course
EXAMPLES: Final Exams, Unit or Chapter Tests, Benchmark
Assessments on Standards, State Exams, Final Papers,
Projects
 SMALL GROUP DISCUSSION TIME
1. Please arrange yourselves into groups of 4-5 people.
2. Each group will be been given a large poster sheet and
markers.
3. Over the next 15 minutes, discuss the ways you have used
summative assessments in the past, and make a list of these
methods on your poster sheet.
4. Next, discuss and list some of the difficulties or challenges
you or your students have faced regarding these summative
assessments.
5. Be prepared to present your list to everyone in the room
when your time is up.
 OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF MONTHS :
● Try an authentic summative assessment practice that you’ve never tried before
in at least one of your classes.
(See the links about authentic assessments below.)
● Reflect upon if or how this summative assessment has effectively
demonstrated your students’ learning.
Check out the following resources for inspiration:
What are AUTHENTIC ASSESSMENTS?
Authentic vs. Traditional Assessments
Authentic Assessments
Authentic Assessment Toolbox
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Effective Assessment Practices - SESSION 3
SMART GOALS of Session 3:
1. You will be able to discuss and provide examples of culturally
responsive assessments.

2. You will reflect upon your teaching experiences and share ways that
you may or may not have been culturally responsive in your
assessment practices.

3. You will make a plan to implement a culturally responsive

assessment.
What are CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE ASSESSMENTS?
● Assessments that focuses upon equitable measures of determining
student learning.
● It allows students space to demonstrate their learning, not their exam
taking skills.
● Students are given options. It’s a differentiated evaluation approach.
● Common rubrics are used.
● It is a faculty and student shift to one of collaboration instead of power.
● The framework allows for learning to have multiple dimensions:
individual, social, and cultural.
● It is student focused and calls for student involvement throughout the
entire assessment process.
These videos should give you more information
about Culturally Responsive Teaching practices.
Please take note of important concepts and be
prepared to discuss them in groups.

Culturally Responsive Teaching

Ted Talk - A Tale of Two Teachers
Differentiated Instruction
 SMALL GROUP DISCUSSION TIME
1. Please arrange yourselves into groups of 4-5 people.
2. Each group will be been given a large poster sheet and
markers.
3. Over the next 15 minutes, discuss the following:
● What information in the videos seem important to you
and why?
● How have you tried to be culturally responsive in your
teaching and assessment practices in your classrooms?
● What could you do to be more culturally responsive?
4. Be prepared to share a summary of what your group
discussed with everyone in the room when your time is up.
 BEFORE OUR NEXT PLC MEETING
Please watch or read at least one of the following.
Be prepared to discuss what strategies you plan
to use in order to make your assessments more
culturally responsive.
Culturally Responsive Assessment
Culturally Responsive Evaluations
NCTE - Culturally Responsive Assessment
Keeping Students At the Center