Growing Success: Improving Student Learning through Assessment

Assessment & Evaluation

Growing Success: Improving Student Learning through Assessment

• Assessment, Planning and Instruction Cycle - Planning Model

This approach encourages teachers to ‘plan with the end in mind’, linking assessment and evaluation practices to instructional strategies.

Assessment in HPE

Growing Success: Improving Student Learning through Assessment

To maximize learning, assessment and instruction must be planned around a clearly

defined learning goal for students.

Once this learning goal is identified, then determine what the student will have to do to

demonstrate they have successfully completed the learning. Only then can the method of

instruction for how the student should be taught in order to learn the concept be established.

Growing Success: Improving Student Learning through Assessment

The Assessment, Planning and Instruction Cycle involves the following steps:

•Select applicable curriculum expectations •Assess before learning•Plan and implement instructional strategies and activities •Assess during learning •Adapt or adjust the instruction •Assess after learning.

Growing Success: Improving Student Learning through Assessment

Consider using the following outline to support the Assessment, Planning and Instruction Cycle to plan each unit:

Curriculum: What will the students learn?

Summary: What do I want students to learn by the end of the unit?

Growing Success: Improving Student Learning through Assessment

Overall Expectations: Refer to the Health & Physical Education curriculum document for expectations that need to be addressed.

Use professional judgment to determine which specific expectations should be used to bring the overall expectations to life. Identify the broad ideas associated with the overall expectations.

Growing Success: Improving Student Learning through Assessment

Assessments and Evaluation: How will I know what students’ have learned?

Assessment of learning

Assessment for learning

Assessment as learning

Growing Success: Improving Student Learning through Assessment

How can we create a school community where all are independent learners?

Growing Success: Improving Student Learning through Assessment

Changing the Relationship

The goal of assessment for learning and as learning is to improve learning and to 

develop independent learners.

Growing Success: Improving Student Learning through Assessment

We are learning to:

• Develop a common understanding of the language of assessment

• Identify and describe the practices of AfL and AaL, and how they work together to help students to become independent learners

• Identify what effective implementation of AfL and AaL looks like in the classroom and in the school

Growing Success: Improving Student Learning through Assessment

What are:Assessment for learningAssessment as LearningAssessment of Learning

Common Understanding

Growing Success: Improving Student Learning through Assessment

Watch the clip from the Webcast “Rethinking Classroom Assessment with Purpose in Mind”.

Dr. Lorna Earl

ACTIVITY 1

Growing Success: Improving Student Learning through Assessment

• Read each statement on your place mat and with a partner decide whether it represents AfL, AaL or AoL

• Compare your responses with a different group. Where are they the same? Where are they different?

• Share your thinking with the entire group.

ACTIVITY

Growing Success: Improving Student Learning through Assessment

ACTIVITY Assessment ForLearning

Assessment AsLearning

Assessment OfLearning

Who is the active partner?

What is the information used for?

Growing Success: Improving Student Learning through Assessment

Assessment ForLearning

Assessment AsLearning

Assessment OfLearning

By teachers

To determine what to do next instructionally (strategies, differentiation)

To provide descriptive feedback to students (what they are doing well, what needs improvement and how to improve)

By student

To determine what to do next in my learning (e.g. strategy, focus)

To provide descriptive feedback to peers and self (peer and self assessment)

Goal is to become reflective, self‐monitoring learner

By teacher

To determine student’s level of achievement of overall expectations at a given point in time

As evidence to support professional judgment

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Growing Success: Improving Student Learning through Assessment

Identify and describe the practices of AfL and AaL, that help students become independent learners.

We are learning to:

Growing Success: Improving Student Learning through Assessment

Learning Goals

Success Criteria

Descriptive Feedback

Peer‐ and Self‐Assessment

Individual Goal Setting

Growing Success: Improving Student Learning through Assessment

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Growing Success: Improving Student Learning through Assessment

Assessment for Learning and Assessment as Learning

Which practices form the cornerstone on which AfL and AaL are built?

Growing Success: Improving Student Learning through Assessment

What are students expected to learn?

How will students demonstrate their learning?

How will we design the learning so all will learn?

Planning with the End in Mind

Overall and SpecificExpectations

ConversationsObservations Products

Instructional +AssessmentStrategies

Learning Goals

Success Criteria

Descriptive FeedbackPeer & Self‐AssessmentGoal Setting

Growing Success: Improving Student Learning through Assessment

Co-creating the Success Criteria

ACTIVITY 

•View the video on teaching the volleyball pass•With a partner share the success criteria that the student must demonstrate to complete this skill properly•Share your success criteria with another group•Share with the entire group

Growing Success: Improving Student Learning through Assessment

Setting the Stage for LearningIn the classroom, learners:• Know what they are learning• Define and apply success criteria• Give and receive feedback• Support learning through peer‐assessment• Monitor their learning through self‐assessment• Set individual goals• Engage in strategic questioning and learning conversations

• Engage in critical and creative thinking