Data-based Modifications of Formative Assessments 1. INTRODUCTION Math classes can move quickly from concept to concept, sometimes with little or no assessment until unit tests or chapter tests. This can leave a math teacher wondering if students are learning the concepts being taught, and leave students wondering if they understand those concepts as well. 2. FORMATIVE ASSESSMENTS Formative assessment can be used in the math classroom to assess immediate student comprehension and understanding of an entire lesson or just a small part of it and provides the students and the teacher with immediate feedback which can be used quickly to inform and adjust the lesson to provide an optimum learning experience for students and moves learners forward. There are two pieces of essential information a student needs to hear through feedback provided by the teacher: affirmation of what they can currently do and what they need to do in the future in order to improve their understanding. Students need to understand the feedback from the teacher so they can act on it, but the teacher does not want to discourage or confuse the student even more. A teacher must tailor the feedback to provide each student with different methods, ideas, and suggestions to meet the needs of the various students in the classroom. Keep in mind to respond to areas for improvement positively and non-judgemental. There are a variety of formative assessment activities that can be used in math classrooms to determine which students learned the lesson, which students are a little shaky, and which students require additional support. You can balance between the online and offline kind of formative assessments. Here are some super fun, easy and user-friendly suggestions for an online formative assessments: 1) Socrative 2) Kahoot 3) Plickers You can balance between individual or group type of answers in assessments. With a group type of answers, the team could discuss their answers easily, and the students submitted their responses as a team. The motivation of the students could be increased by the collaborative, small-group environment because there is a sense of sharing ideas and cooperation. Formative Assessment times indicated for each assessment are estimates. Times vary depending on class size, teacher efficiency, and student engagement. 3. DATA-BASED FORMATIVE ASSESSMENTS The most important is your reflection on data results and plan to move forward. And this is my suggestion: 1. Quick Sort Protocol, Sort the data into three piles: Does not yet meet the objective. Meets the objective. Exceeds the objective. 2. Record the number of student work samples in each pile. 3. Analyze each pile, making notes about errors, misconceptions, and gaps. Which items posed the greatest challenges? What mistakes or confusions are evident in work? Which distractors (wrong answers) are students frequently choosing in multiple-choice questions? 4. For students with "not yet" performances, brainstorm and record possible root causes as to why students have not yet met each specific criterion. What might the students have been thinking of making this error? What different instructional strategies could I use to fix or undo whatever led to this error to immediately unravel students' misconceptions? 5. Define the next instructional steps with corrective and extension activities for students with "not yet" performances. Plan the next lesson and manage time and tasks in class so that you get 15 minutes (or whatever it takes) to reteach the skills and concepts? 6. Define the next instructional steps for extension/enrichment activities for students whose work "met" and "exceeded" the objective. 7. Build the flexible groupings, pair the stronger students with the students who are in the "not yet" stage. 4. SUMMARY And remember, fetching results data can be very intimidating and scary. Focus on what the data says about the progress of each student. Recognize that it is not about you. The data is not a reflection of your teaching. It is a reflection of student's learning. What you do about this data is a reflection of your professionalism. An error occurred. https://www.youtube.com/watch? time_continue=1&v=buUaPW1uhSE&feature=emb_logor enable JavaScript if it is disabled in your browser.
