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Communicating Ocean
Sciences
Session 10:
Assessment
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Session 10 objectives
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Have the experience of being assessed as
part of your exploration of the topic of
assessment
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Gain information about testing and assessment
and how this arena of education is changing
Learn how you can use some newer principles
and practices to support your students’ learning
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Quick Write
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How ave you been assessed in your
college courses?
Do these methods truly tell the instructor
what you’ve learned?
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What do you think the goals of
assessment in college are?
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What should they be?
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Assessment Carousel
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Goals of the Assessment
Carousel
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to give students an experience with being assessed
themselves as part of their exploration of the topic.
to find out what the class has learned about the
topics that have been addressed in the course.
to find out what the class knows about the topics
that have not yet been addressed in the course.
to provide an opportunity for students to teach each
other.
to evaluate and adjust instruction in the course
based on this information.
to review the course topics before applying these
strategies in designing their own lessons.
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Current Practice and
Understanding
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Different kinds of “tests” assess for different
kinds of knowledge.
Create a balance of different kinds of tests
so that we can test for a broader range of
student knowledge.
All forms of “tests” are currently referred to
more generally as “assessment.”
Assessment should occur before, during,
and after learning.
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Relationship between
Assessment/Instruction/Curriculum
Assessment
Instruction
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Curriculum
Jargon
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Instruction: How a teacher teaches
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Curriculum: What a teacher
teaches
Assessment--> How should I teach?
Assessment--> What should I teach?
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Multiple Purposes of
Assessment
Assessment
Assessment
Assessment
Assessment
Assessment
Assessment
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Teacher
Student
Parent
School
Community
Nation
Sandy Shore Quiz
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Circle all the things that are true about a beach. A beach is _______.
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A special kind of shoreline
B.
Shorelines that people can walk on
C.
Covered in loose material
D.
Always by the ocean
Circle all of the things that sand can be made of
A.
Shells
B.
Rocks
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Water
D.
Trash
Erosion of rocks on the beach occurs when _________.
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Waves and wind slowly wear them away
B.
People make sand castles on the beach
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Rocks get covered with seaweed
D.
Animals nest on the rocks
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Sandy Shore Task
What I Learned About the Shoreline Mini-book
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Introducing the mini-book. Show the students the prepared blank minibooks. Tell them they will each get to write a mini-book about what they
have learned about shorelines so far. It must be an informational text, but
they can choose what it is about. They could write an encyclopedia about
what you find on beaches or maybe what sand is made of and how sand is
formed.
Components of the mini-book.
a.
Cover: author and title. Everyone decides on the title for the book
& writes their name on the cover.
b.
Page 1: Table of Contents.
c.
Pages 2-4: These pages will include the information they have
learned about shorelines. They should also include a drawing on
each page of text.
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On back cover: Write about the author and illustrator (when they
have completed all other parts of the book).
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Analyze the Two Kinds of
Student Work
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Read and discuss the student work in each
folder.
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What does each assessment tell you about
the student’s level of knowledge? What does it
not tell you?
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Assessment in Context
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What were you able to learn from looking at
the student work from the “Sandy Shore
Quiz?”
From the “Sandy Shore Task?”
What were the strengths of each assessment
method?
What were the weaknesses of each method?
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Sandy Shore Task Scoring Guide
Level Four (highest level of work)
Students wrote detailed descriptions about shorelines and included appropriate illustr
on all three pages. They also included at least two key concepts in their mini-book a
evidence to support their claims about shorelines.
Level Three
Students wrote detailed descriptions about shorelines and included appropriate illustr
on all three pages. They also included one key concept in their mini-book and used s
evidence to support their claims about shorelines.
Level Two
Students included some details and drawings in their descriptions of shorelines. How
they did not use any evidence to support their claims.
Level One
Students did not include details in their descriptions or drawings of shorelines. They d
use any evidence to support their claims about shorelines.
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Criterion -referenced scoring:
Student work is compared to specific
criteria described in a scoring guide
Norm-referenced scoring:
Student work is compared to other
students’ work
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Full Range of Learning
Facts
Basic Skills
Complex Thinking
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Authentic assessment is not new. To get a driver’s license, we
are asked to drive a car in the middle of traffic. When students
apply to art school, they submit portfolios of their work. To try
out for baseball teams, athletes demonstrate their pitching,
hitting and fielding skills. Even teachers are evaluated on our
performance in the classroom.
So, how do we assess students? We give them tests and
worksheets where they regurgitate facts; find the answers to
problems but rarely explain them; and explore hypothetical
situations that have little connection to what we teachers know
is important. Ironically, authentic assessment is used
everywhere in the real world, except for the field of education
whose goal is to prepare students for tomorrow!
--Elementary School Principal
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Examples of Assessment
Strategies
Story Writing
Letter Writing
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Reflections
Game Playing
Pre-Post Testing
Model Making
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Explorations
Experiments
Investigations
Conventions,
Conferences, Debates
Applications
Teacher Observations