Data for Dummies
Susie Dyson
Spanish/ELL teacher Wyoming City Schools
dysons@wyomingcityschools.org
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Objectives:
 1. Define summative and formative assessments.
 2. Provide examples of teacher made summative and
formative assessments based on standards.
 3. Presenters will share data from their own
classrooms.
 4. Teachers will have the opportunity to make their
own rubric.
Monkey Survey:
 -This is what you said…….
survey results
**You can use this too!!
Discussion questions:
 What does an A mean if …….
-my school uses a 10 point scale and yours doesn’t?
-your school uses weights for grades and mine doesn’t?
-you count homework as a completion grade and I don’t?
Furthermore:
 -Inconsistencies
 -Base feedback based on something standard, so
students know where their strengths and weaknesses
are.
Discussion questions:
 How do you grade your students?
Homework-20%
Speaking-10%
Writing-10%
Tests/Quizzes-20%
Portfolio-10%
Projects-20%
Miscellaneous-10%
Formative and Summative
Assessments
Formative-informal assessment of how students are
doing with a particular learning objective; not graded
-exit slip, 3 question quiz, Blackboard quizzes, clicker,
surveys, observations from a class discussion, phone
message, etc….
Others???????
Marzano
Marzano Research
Tips
Summative Assessments
 A formal assessment at the end of a unit
-Unit tests, quiz, final exam, final papers, oral exam,
projects, presentation, OGT, AP, National
Spanish/Latin/French exam, etc….
-Others ???????
When will I ever use this?
 Monitor student progress
 Make adjustments
 Let students know where they are at
 Comprehensible across the board
Some examples of what I have done
 Rubrics-checklists
-yes or no
-descriptive words like always, sometimes, never
-descriptors
-requires certain number of examples
-give full credit and put comments in grade book
Standards
 Briefly talk about ACTFL
ACTFL and Ohio Ohio K-12
 See my example….
My example based on ACTFL:
My example based on Ohio:
Interpreting it
 Go over it with the students
 +++/---- make students aware
 “ll” sound, eye contact, subject verb agreement,
vocabulary, intonation, etc….
What are you working on in your
class right now?
 Link it to a standard and create a rubric that has
descriptors as well as points
 Share it……
Just for fun:
 Songs of the week!!
www.zachary-jones.com
Youtube.com
Be a bouncer
Throw things
Just for fun
 Make podcasts
 Minimal extra credit but award them for things like
participating in Spirit Week
 Make hall passes out of currency
 Let them use their phones during class and leave you a
voicemail (on your school extension)