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Examining Assessment Strategies
In this activity, you reflect on the types of assessment that occur in your classroom and examine teacher-created sample assessment plans to identify the components that foster learner success.
Step 1: Reflecting on Assessment in My Classroom
To help plan for ongoing learner-centred assessment in your classroom, take a short formative self-assessment. This will help you focus on areas of strength as well as areas in which you would like to improve as you develop your assessment plan. If you prefer, you may take this survey in the Module 5, Activity 2, Step 1: Reflecting on Assessment in My Classroom in your Notebook. Identify where your assessment practices fall on the scale.
Step 2: Reviewing Assessment Plans
In this step, you review teacher-created assessment plans to find ideas for your own
assessment plan. As you read through the samples, look
for assessment strategies that apply to the areas on which you want to focus.
With a partner, go to the Assessing Projects resource and review the Assessment Plans section:
- Go the Intel® Assessing Projects resource.
- Click Assessment Plans.
- Click either Intermediate Phase Assessment Plans or Senior FET Phase Assessment Plans.
- Click the title of an assessment plan that interests you.
- Review the table of assessment strategies below the Assessment Timeline. View sample assessments in the table by clicking the title in the left column and review the process and purposes on the right. (When you develop your own assessment plan, you will probably have fewer assessments than those shown in the tables.) To help you with your own assessment plan, think about the following questions. These
questions are also available in Module 5, Activity 1, Step 2: Reviewing Assessment Plans, in your Notebook:
- Which of these assessments would be most important to you and your learners?
- What kind of information would you and your learners gain by using the
assessments?
- How would the assessments help learners become self-directed, collaborative learners?
- How do the assessments assess higher-order thinking, 21st Century skills, and a learner's ability to answer the Curriculum-Framing Questions?
- What guidelines would your learners need to use the assessments effectively?
- While reviewing, you may find assessments that you want to download, save, and adapt later for your project.
Optional:
If you have time, review additional assessment plans.
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