In the Classroom: Assessment for Instruction
Assessment Steps
The web is filled with helpful research and ideas - and don't forget to check in with colleagues! See: Critical Issue: Implementing Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment Standards in Mathematics, from North Central Regional Educational Laboratory (NCREL) and Balanced Assessment: Enhancing Learning with Evidence-Centered Teaching Professional Inquiry Kit (eight activity folders and a CD-ROM: ETS and ASCD). |
3. Assessment for InstructionResource - |
what does it look like? |
Using a holistic rubric to guide assessment for instruction during the year |
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* See the secondary NJ holistic writing rubric in web or Word format and the elementary school rubric. |
| B. Using summative holistic rubric for formative analytic assessment by HSPA students: examine Mathematics and Language Arts Literacy Assessment Tutorials using the analytic rubrics - perhaps a different one on different weeks. * Parsing a holistic rubric into analytic parts aids in calendaring formative assessment. |
* See the Mathematics and Language Arts Literacy Assessment Tutorials -----students use writing analytic rubric to examine different levels of writing products -----students use reading open-ended scoring rubric to score reading responses. |
Standards-based exemplars are benchmarked to set points in the school year |
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| B. Exemplars as benchmarks. * Standards-based exemplars created for definite periodic assessment points inform instruction. |
Benchmark resources: Exemplars. The Task Bank from North Dakota. Read how Exemplars are being used in Newark. |
Differentiating for subgroups may be critical |
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| C. Hints for differentiating instruction, brain-based learning, problem-based learning, support for English Language learners and special education students. Don't forget the IEPs! * Instruction support from differing sources can help with subgroup instruction needs. |
See project-based learning from the George Lucas Foundation, How people learn, ELL in the Mainstream, Reading Research - Pre-K Through Grade 8, standards, Cooking with Data workshop, and more on NJPEP's Web site. |
| D. NJDOE has several sites that have excellent resources | * Bilingual Education * Early Literacy/Reading * Special Education |
Assessment for instruction may be in many formats |
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| E. Writing test questions: multiple choice and open-ended. * Writing good questions above a knowledge level takes practice! |
Multiple-choice Questions Reports Short Answer/Open-ended Questions Forms Helpful Hints: Elementary, GEPA, HSPA |
| F. "Response" design for students: rubrics, portfolio/performance, presentations * The choice of assessment type can help a student take on the burden of his/her own learning. |
Rubrics Portfolios Project-based |
