Whiteboards and Wikis supporting formative assessment Peter Schopfer Mark Newbery
Overview
Who we are and our school FORMATIVE ASSESSMENTWhite boards
- what they are- how they support formative
assessment in: science and math
English and social studies- pros and cons
Wikis - their support of formative
assessment
“Formative evaluation” is feedback and correctives at each stage in the teaching-learning process. By formative evaluation we mean evaluation by brief tests used by teachers and students as aids in the learning process. While such tests may be graded and used as part of the judging and classificatory function of evaluation, we see much ore effective use of formative evaluation if it is separated from the grading process and used primarily as an aid to teaching.Benjamin Bloom (1969)
Formative Assessment
ADVANTAGES - teacher
Instant “assessment” of :- Student understanding- Common errors- Student misunderstanding
ADVANTAGES - teacherInstant “assessment” of :- student understanding- Common errors- Student misunderstanding
Keeps students on-taskNon-disruptive form of student
teacher communication
ADVANTAGES - teacherInstant:- “assessment” of student understanding- Common errors- Student misunderstanding
Keeps students on-taskNon-disruptive form of student
teacher communicationLOW COST (except markers)
ADVANTAGES - student
- “safe” (non-permanent)- Anonymous (re: other students)- Promotes risk taking- Fun / motivational student - participation is higher
English and Social StudiesI want students to be able to:
-show me what they know. -take risks -have dialogue about their learning
Work needs to be -emotionally safe -meaningful
Wikis support formative assessment.
Formative assessment requires students to be involved in the process of selecting, reflecting on, and reviewing artifacts with the teacher that show their learning. ( Stiggins 2002)
Students tell their learning stories.
Wikis
A wiki is a space on the Web where you can share work and ideas, pictures and links, videos and media.
Wiki page
http://english112013.wikispaces.com/Ryan
http://english112013.wikispaces.com/
Problems
- access to computers – at school and at home.
- access to web. – at school and at home.
- dumping ground – becomes cluttered.
- work is deleted.