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Understanding Formative Assessment > www.edweek.org/go/formativeassessment-digital
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Some online and blended-learning curricular products
are collecting data continuously, in effect doing ongoing
formative assessment all the time. They may assemble hundreds of data points that reveal how a student
moves through the curriculum and at what pace. Digital
platforms can allow teachers to drill down and provide
very specific glimpses of how a student is mastering
(or not) a particular concept or standard and can even
show a teacher how long a student takes to read a
page of text or do a math problem.
Michelle R. Davis
Formative assessment is critical to a teacher's ability to adapt
lessons and check for student
understanding. New technology
has made it easier to do this more
often and collect significantly
more information about where a
student is in the learning process.
But education technology that enhances formative assessment also
presents challenges, including
the fact that many of these digital tools do not easily talk to each
other or share data.
"There's a whole new paradigm
of teaching and learning where
to be truly personalized, we need
these assessments to be part of
an integrated model of education," said Julia Freeland Fisher,
the director of education research
at the Clayton Christensen Institute, a San Mateo, Calif.-based
think tank that studies blended
learning.
Characteristics of today's ed-tech
formative assessments include:
Sample products: DreamBox Learning, Knewton
ADAPTIVE
Formative assessment here acts as the gatekeeper, checking
for understanding before the student moves on and may determine where the student moves to next within the digital curriculum. A tool like the online reading curriculum LightSail provides
each student with individualized libraries and reading lists that
change based on student-assessment results. Other formativeassessment tools choose the questions that are presented to
students based on their previous answers.
"This could not be done without ed tech," said Tracey Roden, the
vice president of curriculum at the adaptive e-learning company Istation, another company that specializes in adaptive testing. "Algorithms provide differentiation without a human-timing barrier."
Sample products: Istation, LightSail, ST Math
INSTANTANEOUS
Sometimes, teachers just want to know right then which students
"get it" and which don't. Some products can provide teachers with
this on-the-spot, at-a-glance information. The free app Plickers, for
example, has students hold up cards in response to teacher questions. Using the app and a smartphone, teachers scan the cards,
and the results are displayed on a smart device or screen. Clickers
(similar to television remotes) can do the same thing.
Vicki Davis, a teacher at the private Westwood Schools in Georgia
who also writes the well-known ed-tech blog CoolCatTeacher, often
uses Socrative for a similar check-in. "I put the problem on the
board, and everyone types in an answer. At that moment, I know exactly how many kids got it." These quick-hit formative assessments
"collapse the remediation and feedback cycle," she said.
Sample products: ExitTicket, Plickers, Quizlet, Socrative
GAMIFICATION
Formative assessment in the form of games feeds on
students' love of competition and digital gaming. Inherently,
digital games are designed to show learner progress and
to conduct assessment: Players earn stars or get to new
levels when they master concepts.
"By definition, a game is assessing a player all the time,"
said Barry Fishman, a co-author of the 2015 report, "The
A-Games Project." The report found that educational games
can enhance formative assessment, but need design improvements to help teachers dig into and collect information on student progress connected to specific concepts.
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New software and apps now allow teachers
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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Education Week - November 11, 2015 - Special Report
Education Week - November 11, 2015 - Special Report
Table of Contents
Bringing Clarity to a Cloudy Idea
Formative-Assessment Misconceptions
Should Formative Assessments Be Graded?
Common Core: Tools to Check Students’ Grasp
Putting Students in Charge of Their Own Learning
An Arizona Initiative Sets Sights on Teachers
Learning Progressions: Road Maps for Teaching
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