ASSESSMENT TO DIFFERENTIATE

THINGS THAT MAKE YOU GO HMMMMM.....

Decision Making and Classroom Assessment

Teacher as.....

• mentor to individual students uses assessment to guide interaction with the student 
• guide for the class uses assessment to oversee the operation of the classroom
• marks accountant uses assessment to record day-to-day marks
• reporter uses assessment to report to parents, teachers (report cards)
• program director uses assessment to guide teaching decisions

Things to consider when determining accommodations..

Adjustments and Testing

• setting
• timing
• scheduling
• presentation
• response

ICE MODEL

IDEAS

Building blocks of learning (e.g., steps in a process, facts and definitions)

CONNECTIONS

Links or relationships students make among the Ideas and between new and prior learning (e.g., combining steps, explaining one phenomenon in terms of another)

EXTENSIONS

Internalization of learning by students so it becomes part of their perspective (e.g., using learning in novel ways, seeing the world differently)

ADAPTING CLASSROOM ASSESSMENT

How?

• adapting learning outcomes
• preparing students for classroom tests
• adapted administration of classroom tests
• adapting the marking of classroom tests
• using performance assessments
• portfolios

PORTFOLIOS

STEPS

• COLLECT (organization)
• SELECT (purposeful, contents to learner outcomes)
• REFLECT (conferences)
• INSPECT (celebrate)

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