In my class my favorite formative assessment involves lots of white boards for every student and a lot of white board markers. I put a math problem on the my board and have the students work it out. It is very obvious who doesn't know how to do the work and slowly some students actually learn. The classic summative assessment is the common assessment we do at the end of each unit. My big revaluation from this chapter was understanding that "formative is an assessment for learning" and "summative is an assessment of learning"
During my lessons I used rating from 0-4 scale. (0=I have no idea what you are talking about,1= I have heard of it but will need a LOT of help, 2= I am understanding more but will still need help, 3= I can do it with little to no help, 4= I could teach it) as my formative assessment. We used district CBAs and grade level CBAs for summative assessments.
Formative assessments in my classroom include "Gimme Thumbs", "Give Me Fingers", student white boards, and short "quizzes". Thumb up=I could teach it, thumb down=lost, and horizontal thumb=I pretty much get it but I couldn't teach it to someone else yet. Fingers means to give me a certain number of fingers to show me the answer to a multiple choice question. For example, 1 finger means answer choice A, 2 means B, etc. My white board method is similar to Lannette's. My quizzes aren't really quizzes, it's just 1-5 problems in the middle of our notes, depending on the difficulty, that I come around and check as they work them. I've found that one of the easiest ways to quickly check my students understanding is to just listen to their pair-shares.
We gave district and grade level CBAs and mid-unit quizzes as our summative assessments.
Formative Assessment: I love utilizing graphic organizers and polls (students text in responses and shows answer choice %) to monitor students learning, such as listing characteristics of Federalists vs. Anti Federalists.
Summative Assessment: Students divided into 3 groups (Fed, Anti Federalist and Jury). The Federalist and Anti Federalist create arguments for ratification of the new constitution. Another example is the creation of a project/quiz/test.
The important facts I learned from this chapter are that formative assessments occur during the learning process and they are based on short turnarounds so teachers can give additional instruction for students who did not get the concept. Nancy and I discussed that one of the goals for our grade level PLC this year is the need to create more common formative assessments. Summative assessments: projects/unit tests/CBAs Formative assessments: Worksheets/ journal entries/quizzes/exit tickets.
Warm-ups (daily) Homework (3 or 4 days a week: graded) Classwork (for the most part CMP) Pre/posttest (weekly) Games (weekly; Jeopardy/$20,000 pyramid) Major projects (at least one early in the year) Common formative assessments (PLC generated) Common summative assessments (district and state generated)
Formative assessments include exit cards summarizing the main idea, illustrating using elements of items learned, and WS indicating a specific skill. After latitude and longitude are taught, practice WS are given throughout the remainder of the year. It's very easy to tell the difference between an error and a student who does not understand the concept of absolute location.
Formative assessments are used daily in my classroom. I don’t think I could survive a math lesson without them. Math builds so much on itself that I need to see where the students are. I have to see if the students can plot coordinate points before I teach transformations of a coordinate grid. Examples of formative assessments I use are thumbs up or down, 1-easy 2-medium 3-hard, think pair share, and I also walk around the room and watch for struggling students. I also use Ipod apps such as socrative that allows me to see the students’ answers in the class to decide if I can move on to more challenging questions. Examples of summative assessments I use are weekly checkups, tests, as well as STAAR scores. These allow me to see the students strengths and weaknesses and where to go with my teaching.
"After reading about formative versus summative assessments, discuss examples of each you have used in your classroom."
I view the writing process itself as an ongoing formative assessment. The summative assessment of this results in polished final compositions and eventually the STAAR compositions. Other than writing itself, I utilize exit tickets, thumbs up, weekly warm-up monitoring and feedback, and student created foldables and models that demonstrate learning to others. Classroom summative assessments include STAAR format unit tests, district tests and projects.
I used exit passes on post-its or index cards, journal entries, summation of cornell notes, thumbs up/thumbs down, polls, and discussion questions as formative assessments.
For a summative assessment, I'd use the same assessments used by the core teachers. For formative assessments, I would dialogue with the few kids I had in my room as they completed independent work, to see what they understood and where they still needed help. I'd also review the independent work with them to verify that they understood what they thought they understood.
I use warm-ups, exit tickets, quick writes, thumbs up/thumbs down, graphic organizers, worksheets, sentence strips with examples of a grammar concept, and short quizzes as formative assessments. Summative assessments include essays, projects, six weeks tests. In my opinion, formative assessments are very informative, purposeful, and more student-friendly. "Corrective feedback seems to hold the power for improved learning." Students seem to "get it" when we provide more opportunities for them to test their understanding.
Most of my formative assessments were: white boards, exit tickets, warm-ups, think-pair-share, scavenger hunts and thumbs up/down. Summative - Common Assessments, Unit Tests & Quizzes
I have done sticky notes, scategories, tongue depressors in cans and hand signals to assess mini-lessons in my classes. I like to give a preassessment before a three week period to assess what students currently know. This in turn drives my teaching and differention strategies for instruction.
One of the formative assessments that I use regularly is with whiteboards using Kagan strategies Sage/Scribe where one student writes and the other tells the scribe what to write. After like a minute, they put their boards up to display. One of the summative assessments in my class that I use is them taking a quiz thru an online source where they put their answers in using a smartphone or iPads that are provided. I'm able to display data of how many missed and who picked what after each question.
Some formative assessments I have used are exit slips, utilizing post it notes, fist of five, thumbs up and thumbs down, think-pair-share, holding up white boards, short quizzes, and group share outs.
Some summative assessments that I have utilized are common assessments, CBAs, projects, presentations, test, and quizzes.
2. I often used entry/exit tickets, short quizzes, think pair share, and labs as formative assessments. The summative assessments were our 2-3 common assessments, CBAs and semester exams.
Summative Assessments used would be Final writing compositions. As far as the other, I have used a combination of 1-2-3 check, exit tickets, thumbs up, think pair share.
In my class my favorite formative assessment involves lots of white boards for every student and a lot of white board markers. I put a math problem on the my board and have the students work it out. It is very obvious who doesn't know how to do the work and slowly some students actually learn.
ReplyDeleteThe classic summative assessment is the common assessment we do at the end of each unit.
My big revaluation from this chapter was understanding that "formative is an assessment for learning" and "summative is an assessment of learning"
That compare and contrast of summative and formative assessement quote is one of my favorites as well Ms. Fraser.
DeleteDuring my lessons I used rating from 0-4 scale. (0=I have no idea what you are talking about,1= I have heard of it but will need a LOT of help, 2= I am understanding more but will still need help, 3= I can do it with little to no help, 4= I could teach it) as my formative assessment.
ReplyDeleteWe used district CBAs and grade level CBAs for summative assessments.
Formative assessments in my classroom include "Gimme Thumbs", "Give Me Fingers", student white boards, and short "quizzes". Thumb up=I could teach it, thumb down=lost, and horizontal thumb=I pretty much get it but I couldn't teach it to someone else yet. Fingers means to give me a certain number of fingers to show me the answer to a multiple choice question. For example, 1 finger means answer choice A, 2 means B, etc. My white board method is similar to Lannette's. My quizzes aren't really quizzes, it's just 1-5 problems in the middle of our notes, depending on the difficulty, that I come around and check as they work them. I've found that one of the easiest ways to quickly check my students understanding is to just listen to their pair-shares.
ReplyDeleteWe gave district and grade level CBAs and mid-unit quizzes as our summative assessments.
Topic: Federalist vs. Anti Federalists
ReplyDeleteFormative Assessment: I love utilizing graphic organizers and polls (students text in responses and shows answer choice %) to monitor students learning, such as listing characteristics of Federalists vs. Anti Federalists.
Summative Assessment: Students divided into 3 groups (Fed, Anti Federalist and Jury). The Federalist and Anti Federalist create arguments for ratification of the new constitution. Another example is the creation of a project/quiz/test.
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ReplyDeleteNext year, we will get a little more specific about our debrief or formative assessement in class. We will discuss this more during staff development.
ReplyDeleteThe important facts I learned from this chapter are that formative assessments occur during the learning process and they are based on short turnarounds so teachers can give additional instruction for students who did not get the concept.
ReplyDeleteNancy and I discussed that one of the goals for our grade level PLC this year is the need to create more common formative assessments.
Summative assessments: projects/unit tests/CBAs
Formative assessments: Worksheets/ journal entries/quizzes/exit tickets.
Nicely said Libby!!
DeleteWarm-ups (daily)
ReplyDeleteHomework (3 or 4 days a week: graded)
Classwork (for the most part CMP)
Pre/posttest (weekly)
Games (weekly; Jeopardy/$20,000 pyramid)
Major projects (at least one early in the year)
Common formative assessments (PLC generated)
Common summative assessments (district and state generated)
Formative assessments include exit cards summarizing the main idea, illustrating using elements of items learned, and WS indicating a specific skill. After latitude and longitude are taught, practice WS are given throughout the remainder of the year. It's very easy to tell the difference between an error and a student who does not understand the concept of absolute location.
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ReplyDeleteFormative assessments are used daily in my classroom. I don’t think I could survive a math lesson without them. Math builds so much on itself that I need to see where the students are. I have to see if the students can plot coordinate points before I teach transformations of a coordinate grid. Examples of formative assessments I use are thumbs up or down, 1-easy 2-medium 3-hard, think pair share, and I also walk around the room and watch for struggling students. I also use Ipod apps such as socrative that allows me to see the students’ answers in the class to decide if I can move on to more challenging questions. Examples of summative assessments I use are weekly checkups, tests, as well as STAAR scores. These allow me to see the students strengths and weaknesses and where to go with my teaching.
ReplyDelete"After reading about formative versus summative assessments, discuss examples of each you have used in your classroom."
ReplyDeleteI view the writing process itself as an ongoing formative assessment. The summative assessment of this results in polished final compositions and eventually the STAAR compositions. Other than writing itself, I utilize exit tickets, thumbs up, weekly warm-up monitoring and feedback, and student created foldables and models that demonstrate learning to others. Classroom summative assessments include STAAR format unit tests, district tests and projects.
Common formative assessments: thumbs up, thumbs down; a ticket out; classroom discussion; use of white paddle boards
ReplyDeleteSummative Assessment: CBA's and other quizzes/tests along the way.
Formative-Small, white board activities (verb tense games),dialogues, graphic organizers, self-check quizzes to check understanding
ReplyDeleteSummative-Unit tests,(written and oral) as well as shared tests from other schools to compare and show what students had learned.
Formative- wipe off boards for syllabication exercise, STAAR vocabulary, reading summary pyramids, KWL charts, daily reading logs, exit tickets, think alouds, Think-pair-share,
ReplyDeletesummative- Practice STAAR tests, Common reading tests, TMSFA fluency tests, SRI tests
I used exit passes on post-its or index cards, journal entries, summation of cornell notes, thumbs up/thumbs down, polls, and discussion questions as formative assessments.
ReplyDeleteSummative assessments: projects/unit tests/CBAs
For a summative assessment, I'd use the same assessments used by the core teachers. For formative assessments, I would dialogue with the few kids I had in my room as they completed independent work, to see what they understood and where they still needed help. I'd also review the independent work with them to verify that they understood what they thought they understood.
ReplyDeleteI use warm-ups, exit tickets, quick writes, thumbs up/thumbs down, graphic organizers, worksheets, sentence strips with examples of a grammar concept, and short quizzes as formative assessments. Summative assessments include essays, projects, six weeks tests.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, formative assessments are very informative, purposeful, and more student-friendly. "Corrective feedback seems to hold the power for improved learning." Students seem to "get it" when we provide more opportunities for them to test their understanding.
Formative- Thumbs up, thumbs down, graphic organizers, STAAR vocabulary, plot diagrams, Think-pair-share, short quizzes, warm-ups.
ReplyDeleteSummative-Projects, unit test, CBA's.
Most of my formative assessments were: white boards, exit tickets, warm-ups, think-pair-share, scavenger hunts and thumbs up/down.
ReplyDeleteSummative - Common Assessments, Unit Tests & Quizzes
I have done sticky notes, scategories, tongue depressors in cans and hand signals to assess mini-lessons in my classes. I like to give a preassessment before a three week period to assess what students currently know. This in turn drives my teaching and differention strategies for instruction.
ReplyDeleteOne of the formative assessments that I use regularly is with whiteboards using Kagan strategies Sage/Scribe where one student writes and the other tells the scribe what to write. After like a minute, they put their boards up to display.
ReplyDeleteOne of the summative assessments in my class that I use is them taking a quiz thru an online source where they put their answers in using a smartphone or iPads that are provided. I'm able to display data of how many missed and who picked what after each question.
Displaying the data and providing the students immediate feedback is great tool to use in the classroom.
DeleteSome formative assessments I have used are exit slips, utilizing post it notes, fist of five, thumbs up and thumbs down, think-pair-share, holding up white boards, short quizzes, and group share outs.
ReplyDeleteSome summative assessments that I have utilized are common assessments, CBAs, projects, presentations, test, and quizzes.
2. I often used entry/exit tickets, short quizzes, think pair share, and labs as formative assessments. The summative assessments were our 2-3 common assessments, CBAs and semester exams.
ReplyDeleteFormative: worksheets, pre-assessment assignments on Edusmart, science cutups (card based method of matching ideas to examples, vocabulary, etc.)
ReplyDeleteSummative: end of unit tests, CBA’s, lab papers
Summative Assessments used would be Final writing compositions. As far as the other, I have used a combination of 1-2-3 check, exit tickets, thumbs up, think pair share.
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