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ollie4: Article: Attributes from Effective Formative Assessment (CCSSO) - 14 views

  • sufficient detail
    • Gary Petersen
       
      I often wonder how much I miss in my instruction or learning due to not enough specificity in many areas of the process. For examle, are the learning outcomes stated in enough detail; do the assessments provide enough detail, etc.?
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ollie4: Building a Better Mousetrap - 1 views

  • dangers of those that are poorly designed
  • dangers of those that are poorly designed
    • Gary Petersen
       
      Again, poorly designed are the key words. Rubrics can be dangerous.
  • “Perhaps the greatest potential value of classroom assessment is realized when we open the assessment process up and welcome students into that process
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  • they reduce learning to a hit or miss endeavor
    • Gary Petersen
       
      Given the assessments I have been given during my high school and college expereince (quite some time ago), I thank God I had the ability to land on the "hit" side more often than the "miss" side. Not every learner was so lucky.
  • had been more expressive in previous writing assignments
    • Gary Petersen
       
      ...use of multiple assessments would be warranted.
  • Adopt a rubric
    • Gary Petersen
       
      I've always liked the "adopt, adapt, and apply" principle.
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ollie4: Educational Leadership: The Quest for Quality - 5 views

  • to triangulate on student needs defeats the purpose of bringing in more results to inform our decisions.
    • Gary Petersen
       
      Multiple measures have been used for years to establish whether assessments are valid. Very important to note that if the measures are not valid, multiple measures do not indicate validity.
  • For example, suppose we are preparing to teach 7th graders how to make inferences. After defining inference as "a conclusion drawn from the information available," we might put the learning target in student-friendly language: "I can make good inferences. This means I can use information from what I read to draw a reasonable conclusion." If we were working with 2nd graders, the student-friendly language might look like this: "I can make good inferences. This means I can make a guess that is based on clues."
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online1: Iowa Online Teaching Standards - 10 views

  • Provides and communicates evidence of learning and course data to students and colleagues
    • Gary Petersen
       
      In providing professional development to AEA staff on special education issues, I have often relied on "compliance to mandates" as a means to judge the success of the training. Of late, I have become much more interested in measuring staff's "learning" to a standard as one key measure of the effectiveness of training (i.e., teaching).
  • Demonstrates effective instructional strategies and techniques, appropriate for online education, that align with course objectives and assessment
    • Gary Petersen
       
      Providing appropriate strategies to enhance the learning experience online that align with the objectives and assessments within the context of professional development is a big challenge. I realize it is the same challenge that the Iowa Core and CEI puts forward for every teacher. I have been the recipient of many professional development opportunities over the last 30 years and many of them have not come close to meeting this standard. I think things are changing for the better lately and I really believe courses like this have helped.
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