An Evaluation Study Of Short Cycle Assessments
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| Author | : Susan Kay Lang |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 99 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Curriculum planning |
| ISBN | : |
This study evaluated the Literacy Curriculum Alignment Process (LCAP) to determine if the school districts that have adopted the process show improvement on measures for the Ohio Academic Content Standards after two years. The LCAP is defined as an intensive literacy-based professional development program. The process was developed to introduce principals and their leadership teams to an array of instructional tools including the backwards-building curriculum from standards, curriculum alignment, mapping, assessment practices, and data analysis protocols. The primary focus of the LCAP process is to work with professional learning communities to design a formative assessment program that monitors student progress towards the mastery of literacy and numeracy standards. This study examined the LCAP process utilizing an objectives based evaluation model. A series of questions were proposed and the achievement was gathered through both qualitative (proximate) and quantitative (distal) methods. The quantitative findings indicate an improvement on the Ohio standardized tests in fourth and sixth grades in 53 buildings of 20 Ohio public school districts. The qualitative data were generated through a series of questions posed to respondents in a survey through focus groups. Emergent themes were prevalent in the analysis of surveys, feedback forms, and focus groups. Themes included how teachers learn of standards and state tests; teacher perception for the rationale for the short cycle assessments and critical thinking; teachers' and students' preparation and anxiety level for the tests; instruction/curriculum changes due to test performance; teachers' accounts of needing reflection and collaboration time; teacher perception of new educational initiatives with a short-term fix; and teacher utilization of data analysis. Several positive changes in perception regarding the teachers' views of standard-based assessment were found.
| Author | : Susan Lang |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 193 |
| Release | : 2013-09-27 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 1317923065 |
This book shows you how to improve student achievement by providing them with frequent feedback on their work. It provides a step-by-step process to help you write good questions that asses student learning, design your own formative assessments, administer short-cycle assessments, analyze and use data to shape instruction, prepare your students for high-stakes tests, and includes activities and forms to walk you through the process step by step.
| Author | : Susan Lang |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2017-06-30 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781138435612 |
This book shows you how to improve student achievement by providing them with frequent feedback on their work. It provides a step-by-step process to help you -Write good questions that asses student learning-Design your own formative assessments-Administer short-cycle assessments-Analyze and use data to shape instruction-Prepare your students for high-stakes testsIncludes activities and forms to walk you through the process step by step.
| Author | : Betsy Moore |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 161 |
| Release | : 2013-08-06 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 1317924681 |
The ideas and examples in this book help teachers successfully collaborate to raise student achievement through the use of formative assessments. Here, Todd Stanley and Betsy Moore, educators with over 40 years of combined experience, offer proven formative assessment strategies to teachers in a professional learning community.
| Author | : Thomas J. Tobin |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 304 |
| Release | : 2015-05-13 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 1118910389 |
Create a more effective system for evaluating online faculty Evaluating Online Teaching is the first comprehensive book to outline strategies for effectively measuring the quality of online teaching, providing the tools and guidance that faculty members and administrators need. The authors address challenges that colleges and universities face in creating effective online teacher evaluations, including organizational structure, institutional governance, faculty and administrator attitudes, and possible budget constraints. Through the integration of case studies and theory, the text provides practical solutions geared to address challenges and foster effective, efficient evaluations of online teaching. Readers gain access to rubrics, forms, and worksheets that they can customize to fit the needs of their unique institutions. Evaluation methods designed for face-to-face classrooms, from student surveys to administrative observations, are often applied to the online teaching environment, leaving reviewers and instructors with an ill-fitted and incomplete analysis. Evaluating Online Teaching shows how strategies for evaluating online teaching differ from those used in traditional classrooms and vary as a function of the nature, purpose, and focus of the evaluation. This book guides faculty members and administrators in crafting an evaluation process specifically suited to online teaching and learning, for more accurate feedback and better results. Readers will: Learn how to evaluate online teaching performance Examine best practices for student ratings of online teaching Discover methods and tools for gathering informal feedback Understand the online teaching evaluation life cycle The book concludes with an examination of strategies for fostering change across campus, as well as structures for creating a climate of assessment that includes online teaching as a component. Evaluating Online Teaching helps institutions rethink the evaluation process for online teaching, with the end goal of improving teaching and learning, student success, and institutional results.
| Author | : Robert J. Marzano |
| Publisher | : Solution Tree Press |
| Total Pages | : 194 |
| Release | : 2011-10-27 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 1935542435 |
Learn everything you need to know to implement an integrated system of assessment and grading. The author details the specific benefits of formative assessment and explains how to design and interpret three different types of formative assessments, how to track student progress, and how to assign meaningful grades. Detailed examples bring each concept to life, and chapter exercises reinforce the content.
| Author | : Phyllis Blumberg |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 382 |
| Release | : 2017-07-27 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 1119461170 |
Developing Learner-Centered Teaching offers a step-by-step plan for transforming any course from teacher-centered to the more engaging learner-centered model. Filled with self-assessments and worksheets that are based on each of the five practices identified in Maryellen Weimer's Learner-Centered Teaching, this groundbreaking book gives instructors, faculty developers, and instructional designers a practical and effective resource for putting the learner-centered model into action.
| Author | : National Research Council |
| Publisher | : National Academies Press |
| Total Pages | : 383 |
| Release | : 2001-10-27 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 0309293227 |
Education is a hot topic. From the stage of presidential debates to tonight's dinner table, it is an issue that most Americans are deeply concerned about. While there are many strategies for improving the educational process, we need a way to find out what works and what doesn't work as well. Educational assessment seeks to determine just how well students are learning and is an integral part of our quest for improved education. The nation is pinning greater expectations on educational assessment than ever before. We look to these assessment tools when documenting whether students and institutions are truly meeting education goals. But we must stop and ask a crucial question: What kind of assessment is most effective? At a time when traditional testing is subject to increasing criticism, research suggests that new, exciting approaches to assessment may be on the horizon. Advances in the sciences of how people learn and how to measure such learning offer the hope of developing new kinds of assessments-assessments that help students succeed in school by making as clear as possible the nature of their accomplishments and the progress of their learning. Knowing What Students Know essentially explains how expanding knowledge in the scientific fields of human learning and educational measurement can form the foundations of an improved approach to assessment. These advances suggest ways that the targets of assessment-what students know and how well they know it-as well as the methods used to make inferences about student learning can be made more valid and instructionally useful. Principles for designing and using these new kinds of assessments are presented, and examples are used to illustrate the principles. Implications for policy, practice, and research are also explored. With the promise of a productive research-based approach to assessment of student learning, Knowing What Students Know will be important to education administrators, assessment designers, teachers and teacher educators, and education advocates.
| Author | : Thomas A. Angelo |
| Publisher | : Jossey-Bass Incorporated Pub |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2005-04 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 9780787982362 |
This revised and greatly expanded edition of the 1988 handbook offers teachers at all levels how-to advise on classroom assessment, including: What classroom assessment entails and how it works. How to plan, implement, and analyze assessment projects. Twelve case studies that detail the real-life classroom experiences of teachers carrying out successful classroom assessment projects. Fifty classroom assessment techniques Step-by-step procedures for administering the techniques Practical advice on how to analyze your data Order your copy today.
| Author | : Lorna M. Earl |
| Publisher | : Corwin Press |
| Total Pages | : 161 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 1452242976 |
This is a book for teachers and school leaders on formative assessment i.e., assessment as learning where assessment occurs throughout the learning process to inform learning as opposed to assessment that occurs at the end of a learning unit to measure what students have learned (summative assessment). Formative assessment emphasizes the role of the student, not only as a contributor to the assessment and learning process, but the critical connector between them. It defines assessment of learning, assessment for learning and assessment as learning, making a case for assessment as learning. It addresses assessment in the context of what learning is. It shows how to use formative assessment to motivate student learning, help students make connections so that they move from emergent to proficient, extend their learning and to help them become reflective self-regulators of their own learning. It explores how teachers can make the shift to formative assessment by engaging in conceptual change.
