Assessment - An Overview

Assessment for, as & of Learning form 'what we do' in terms of assessing students throughout the year.

During the first couple of weeks of school there would be a lot of Diagnostic Assessment (Assessment for learning) happening with your students.  Especially at the beginning of the school year (i.e. establishing routines, getting to know individual needs, etc....).  In terms of a sport, this can be thought of as the 'try-out'.

Soon you will be establishing Learning Goals and co-creating Success Criteria as you begin your first Unit of Study (Start with the Curriculum and the Guides to Effective Instruction in Mathematics and Guide to Effective Literacy Instruction and move outward).  

At this point Formative Assessment plays an extremely large role (Assessment as Learning).  From our sport analogy, this is the practices you organize as the coach.   Descriptive Feedback plays a large role during this portion of assessment.

This will be a major focus for us as a school this upcoming year.  Our goal is to learn from each other along this journey.  More to come very soon.

Finally, we 'end' with a Summative Assessment piece (Assessment of Learning).  Relative to the other areas, this is a very small portion of the total assessment cycle.  This can be considered one of the 'games' that we are 'competing' in during the season (school year).  

Interested in hearing other perspectives that will add to the conversation.