When it comes to assessment and evaluation, there’s always the question of tests. What should they look like? When should we give them? How many do students need? Maybe tests aren’t the only answer. This session explores assessing and evaluating students through alternatives to tests.

Topics discussed in this session include:

1. Assessment options beyond tests.
2. Opportunities for self-assessment and peer-assessment, as well as teacher assessment.
3. Quick Assessments to drive further instruction.
4. Learning Goals and Success Criteria, and the roles they can play in assessment.
5. Teaching students to “think” so they’ll be successful when they do have tests.

Audience: K-8

Resources:

• Find Aviva online: class blog, Twitter, website
• Ministry docs: Growing Success, Learning for All
• Mark Barnes, Role Reversal: Achieving Uncommonly Excellent Results in the Student-Centered Classroom
• K-12 Internet Radio at 105TheHive
• Examples:
  • Gr. 5 Murder Mystery
  • Gr. 5 Media Literacy & Graphing
  • Using video
  • Gr. 1 podcasts: ex. 1, ex. 2, ex. 3
  • Using photographs
  • At the beginning of learning
  • In the middle of learning: ex. 1, ex. 2, ex. 3
  • Goals and criteria
  • Co-creating
  • At the end of learning
  • Self & peer assessment: ex. 1, ex. 2, ex. 3, ex. 4
  • Rubric – the organ system
  • The Messy Rubric
  • Deep learning
  • Deep thinking: ex. 1, ex. 2
  • Sharing & Questioning
  • Making learning stick
• Tools:
  • TodaysMeet
  • Twiducate
  • Voice Recorder app
• Shared resources:
  • Ontario Writing Assessment (OWA)
  • Podcasting apps
• Educators to follow:
  • Sylvia Duckworth
  • Mr. So’s Classroom
  • Kristi Keery Bishop
  • Sue Dunlop