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Student Engagement and Assessment for Learning
Materials needed for today:1. Handout, Webinar #2
There is a close relationship between students’ experience of engagement and student learning.
Globe and Mail March 26, 2010
Hi-tech classroom seems to be clickingSchool board hopes use of new learning platform translates into higher student achievement
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What makes these teachers believe that the technology is engaging their students?
Are these students intellectually engaged?
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Engagement is about a self-determined commitment to the learning.
Intellectual engagement…
This is where the learner is so focused that ____
itself seems to disappear. It is at this point that
the brain begins to see patterns and make
___________ in the information. Understanding
develops. Furthermore, as the learner
experiences the pleasure inherent in deep
learning, the experience is intensely
___________ .
Csikszentmihalyi (1996)“Flow”
Learners who experience “flow” are intellectually engaged.
Teaching practices have a powerful effect upon student engagement.
Classroom Practices that Make a Difference
• Attention to relationships in the classroom
• Attention to work that is relevant, meaningful and authentic for students
• Thoughtful, intentional designs for learning
• Use of assessment to improve learning and guide teaching
Classroom Practices that Make a Difference
• Attention to relationships in the classroom
• Attention to work that is relevant, meaningful and authentic for students
• Thoughtful, intentional designs for learning
• Use of assessment to improve learning and guide teaching
Alberta Initiative for School Improvement
Deb McFarlane, School Improvement Branch
Assessment is a seamless part of the learning process
Good assessment
is good
teaching!
What other assessment for learning strategies do you know?
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Deb McFarlane, School Improvement Branch
Learning Targets
Criteria for a good restaurant…
Criteria for Oral Presentation
• evidence/examples• organization• delivery• language techniques
Co-constructing Criteria with
Students
The St. Paul School Story, Refocus (2003) Alberta Assessment Consortium
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Evidence of Engagement
Assessment for learning requires clear learning targets,
models of what constitutes quality work, and criteria for evaluation that are co-created with students.
Assessment for learning involves descriptive feedback provided by teachers and peers.
“The most powerful single modification that enhances achievement is feedback.”
(Hattie, 1992)
Feedback that …
• explains how student work relates to learning goals and assessment criteria (specific)
Feedback should …
• explains how student work relates to learning goals and assessment criteria (specific)
• encourages students to improve (descriptive)
Feedback that…
• explains how student work relates to learning goals and assessment criteria (specific)
• encourages students to improve (descriptive)
• is frequent (timely)
(adapted from Marzano, 2006)
To be effective, feedback needs to cause thinking.
Effective Feedback?
Well done! I am very proud of
you
Effective Feedback?
Five of these 20 answers are incorrect. You’ve reduced the fractions incorrectly. Find them
and fix them!
Effective Feedback?
Your sentences have great descriptive words. Try shortening some of the
longer ones and eliminating the words “and then…”
Peer feedback…
Creating a culture of assessment…
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Beverly Barca, Foothills School Division
(AAC Website)
•clarifying learning objectives
•using exemplars
•establishing assessment criteria
•using a rubric
•providing descriptive feedback
•encouraging self assessment
•enabling peer assessment
Assessment feedback enables
students to become self-directed in their
learning.
The self-directed learner…
1. Where am I going?
The self-directed learner…
2. Where am I now?
The self-directed learner…
3. How can I close the gap?
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The St. Paul School Story, Refocus (2003) Alberta Assessment Consortium
Assessment for learning practices facilitate student engagement.
The following practices support engagement…•clear learning targets•exemplars•assessment criteria•descriptive feedback•peer assessment•self assessment
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