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Cristina Heffernan Chief Teacher Trainer, Co-Founder of ASSISTments•7 years as Math Teacher•8 Year as math coach and PD provider
•Leads Professional Development•Trains Trainers•Monitors Content•Runs Studies
Who is Cristina?
Shawn Towle8th Grade Teacher•Has
•Homework•Skill Building•CMP Games
Who is Shawn?
Dr. Neil HeffernanAssociate Professor of Computer Science•Co-Director, Learning Sciences & Technologies Graduate Program•Teach For America Teacher •Over 50 Peer-Reviewed Empirical Studies
•Writes Grants•Does Research•Invents innovations for ASSISTments
Who is Neil?
Formative assessment is a planned process in which assessment-elicited evidence of students’ status is used by teachers to adjust their ongoing instructional procedures or by students to adjust their current learning tactics. Pg 6
W. James Popham 2008
Formative assessment is:
•a planned process •assessment-elicited evidence of students’ status is•used by teachers to adjust their ongoing instructional procedures or•by students to adjust their current learning tactics.
Two views for understanding ASSISTments
Student Hat Teacher Hat
ACE
Log into ASSISTments
Homework Questions–
Evidence of students status
Put on your student hat:
Item Report Teachers
make adjustments
Item Report Students make
adjustments
Skill Builders
Put on your student hat:
Students work until they reach 3 right
in a row
Teachers respond to report–
make adjustments
Online Tutoring
Students make adjustments
Reflections
Put on your student hat:
Assign the reflection
Item Report – Used by teachers to make adjustments
Item Report – Used by teachers to comment to students
Student Item Report–Used by Students to make adjustments
Formative Assessments
Put on your student hat:
Formative Questions Evidence of students status
Item Report – Used by teachers to make adjustments
Online Tutoring
Students make adjustments
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