Whiteboards and Wikissupporting formative assessment

Peter SchopferMark Newbery

Overview

Who we are and our school FORMATIVE ASSESSMENTWhite boards

- what they are- how they support formative

assessment in: science and math

English and social studies- pros and cons

Wikis - their support of formative

assessment

FORMATIVE FORMATIVE ASESSMENTASESSMENT

In 10 words or less what does

“Formative Assessment” mean?

MY JOURNEY

Most important “teaching technique”

I have discovered in 25 years of teaching

“Formative evaluation” is feedback and correctives at each stage in the teaching-learning process. By formative evaluation we mean evaluation by brief tests used by teachers and students as aids in the learning process. While such tests may be graded and used as part of the judging and classificatory function of evaluation, we see much ore effective use of formative evaluation if it is separated from the grading process and used primarily as an aid to teaching.Benjamin Bloom (1969)

Formative Assessment

COPY

5x + 7 = 62(REMEMBER: You must show steps)

ADVANTAGES - teacher

Instant “assessment” of :- Student understanding- Common errors- Student misunderstanding

ADVANTAGES - teacherInstant “assessment” of :- student understanding- Common errors- Student misunderstanding

Keeps students on-taskNon-disruptive form of student

teacher communication

ADVANTAGES - teacherInstant:- “assessment” of student understanding- Common errors- Student misunderstanding

Keeps students on-taskNon-disruptive form of student

teacher communicationLOW COST (except markers)

ADVANTAGES - student

- “safe” (non-permanent)- Anonymous (re: other students)- Promotes risk taking- Fun / motivational student - participation is higher

DISADVANTAGESCost of pensDoodling (?)

English and Social StudiesI want students to be able to:

-show me what they know. -take risks -have dialogue about their learning

Work needs to be -emotionally safe -meaningful

You have five minutes. Draw your pictures

Write about yourselves.

Show the Answer

I find relaxation through cooking my family and pets.

Woman without her man is lost.

Variety and Dialogue

Wikis support formative assessment.

Formative assessment requires students to be involved in the process of selecting, reflecting on, and reviewing artifacts with the teacher that show their learning. ( Stiggins 2002)

Students tell their learning stories.

Wikis

A wiki is a space on the Web where you can share work and ideas, pictures and links, videos and media.

Wiki page

http://english112013.wikispaces.com/Ryan

http://english112013.wikispaces.com/

Self Evaluation

- Discuss why work is good- Two stars and a wish.

- Descriptive to explanatory

Problems

- access to computers – at school and at home.

- access to web. – at school and at home.

- dumping ground – becomes cluttered.

- work is deleted.

Alternatives

- Power Points – saved on thumb drives or slide share

-Google docs

-blogs

-Microsoft Front Page