Empower Students through Self-Assessment

Patricia Louis 2012 SOF Conference

Honolulu, HI

Who I Am

Patricia LouisLibrarian, Aliamanu Elementary, Honolulu, Hawaii

A note

This version of the slide presentation captures the content without the visuals.

Game plan for session

• Share why student self-assessment and technology integration is vital

• Provide examples of how self-assessment and technology can be built into K-12 lessons

• Listen to students as they practice and reflect on their learning

• Engage everyone in developing simple self-assessment tools and sharing different online tools

• Invite questions and exchanges within the session and beyond

Beliefs. . .

• It should be an integral part of learning, not an add-on.

• Self-assessment is a learnable skill.• Technology can be integrated at different

points in the Instructional Cycle

Why bother?

• Students actually learn more deeply• They achieve comprehension and application

at higher levels• They become more self-confident about

themselves as learners• They are more motivated to improve• Higher engagement

What might lessons look like?

Samples of lessons and assessment tools

Unpacking our lessons• Student View

– Essential questions– Learning tasks– Assessment criteria– Student friendly language

• Teacher View– Standards– Learning tasks/resources– Assessment criteria/tools– Learning plan

Gr. 1 – Japan and Hawaii• Essential questions

• How are children in Japan like us in Hawaii?• How are children in Japan different from us in Hawaii?

• Learn new facts about children in Japan from Discovery Learning, Safari Montage and Kids Web Japan.

• Complete a Venn diagram identifying one similarity and one difference between children in Japan and Hawaii.

• Use a checklist to assess what I did.

Me My Teacher/Librarian

I identified at least one similarity between children in Hawaii and Japan

I identified at least one difference between children in Hawaii and Japan

I correctly circled where I found my information

✫ Draw a ☺ if you did this. Draw a if you did not finish this.☹

Grade 2 - Poetry

• Essential questions• What are different forms of poetry?• What is the connection between music and poetry?

• Read and listen to different poems.• Identify different forms of poetry such as haiku, acrostic and

shape poems using e-clickers.• Connect a poem about friends to friends in my own life.• Use a checklist to see how well I know different forms of

poetry.

Gr. 2 - Ecosystem• Essential questions

• What is a ecosystem?• What are the different parts of an ecosystem?• How are different ecosystems alike and different?

• Search for information about a specific ecosystem in books, videos, and online sources.

• Record the information on a note-taking sheet.• Create a slide for my class Voicethread project.• Use a rubric to assess my Voicethread slide.

Voicethread Checklist

Gr. 4 – Ancient Hawaii• Essential question

• What was Hawaii like in the past? Why?• Search for information to our questions in books, photos, and

online sources.• Describe the way Hawaiians managed their natural resources

through the Ahupuaa system.• Create a digital poster with my information using Glogster• Use a rubric to assess my digital poster.

Gr. 6 – Renaissance• Essential questions

• What was the Renaissance?• Who were some important people?• What were some important events?• What impact did it have on the development of the

sciences and humanities and the voyages of exploration?

• Research an important figure from the Renaissance and explain that person’s accomplishments.

• Create a Facebook style webpage using information found from my research.

• Use a rubric to assess my webpage.

Secondary – Greening Our Community• Essential questions

• What does greening a community involve?• How green is our community at this time?• How can we build a greener community?

• Research alternative ways to make a greener community.• Create an infographic display for a Green Day celebration at

our mall.• Use a check-log to assess the graphs in our infographic

displays.

Secondary - Cyberbullying• Essential questions

• Why do teens engage in cyberbullying?• How does it affect the victims?• What can we do about it?

• Investigate how cyberbullying became a serious problem among teens.

• Create a podcast describing cyberbullying, its effects on the victims and ways to deal with it.

• Use a rating-log to assess my podcast.

Ratings-Log to Assess PodcastsRatings

1 = We did a terrific job 2 = We did a satisfactory job 3 = We need to do a much better job

Lessons we are learning• Shift from a teacher-librarian focus to a student focus in

assessment.• Students become the experts in using technology as

assessing their learning.• Make sure that learning goals are clearly stated for

everyone.• Make sure that criteria to assess achievement of goals are

clearly stated for everyone.• Tweak assessment tools you already use.• Use student-friendly language.• Manage and plan when using technology tools with

students.• Keep assessments simple and do-able for you and the

students.

It’s your turn!

Share your favorite online toolSelect a scenario from the handout and decide what to assess and the

tool you might use for this

What’s on your mind?

Short Q/A time

Rounding out our session• The questions that matter for students

– Did I meet my goals?– How do I feel about that?– How can I do even better?

Keeping the action going

• Join us @http://sotf12louis.wikispaces.com• Exchange your work• Pose your questions• Share more terrific resources

Useful online tools for assessment• iRubric

http://www.rcampus.com/indexrubric.cfm• Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators

http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/assess.html

• Webtools4U2Use http://webtools4u2use.wikispaces.com/

• Rubistar http://rubistar.4teachers.org/

• Rubrician.com http://www.rubrician.com/

Mahalo for joining me!

Patty