"Giving students good feedback is crucial, but it can also be incredibly time-consuming. So we went straight to the source—experienced teachers—and identified some of the best advice we could find for striking the right balance between effective assessment and a reasonable workload."

This short video is excellent and provides 6 awesome tips for assessment!

Answer Garden is a free Web 2.0 tool used to obtain instant feedback from a group or used as a form of brainstorming in an educational forum. It is a digital scribble space tool which allows students to respond anonymously to open ended questions, polls, or surveys. Simply type in a question and click on create.

This excellent article from ASCD is written by Jay McTighe and Ken O'Connor explores seven assessment practices that will improve student learning.

In this series we explore the world of assessment and feedback in our new reality.

Brisk Teaching is a free Chrome extension that leverages AI to help teachers save time and enhance their teaching methods. It integrates with Google Classroom, Docs, Slides, YouTube, Canvas, and Schoology, allowing educators to create instructional materials, provide feedback, evaluate student writing, adjust reading levels, generate personalized curriculum, and analyze class progress.

It's free but you can pay to get more features.

Modules for teachers include:
*Overview & Syllabus
*Intro
*Readiness Pre-Assessment
*Formative Assessment
*Data Informed Instruction
*Summative Classroom Assessment
*Putting the Pieces Together
Classroom Assessment in a Remote Learning Environment

The purpose of the video lesson is to review how to give and receive effective feedback. The accompanying handout provides an outline of the important things to remember when giving and receiving feedback. The attached self-evaluation has students think about the feedback that they give and also how they seek and react to feedback for themselves.

Students learn about the manufacturing phase of the engineering design process. They start by building prototypes, which is a special type of model used to test new design ideas. Students gain experience using a variety of simple building materials, such as foam core board, balsa wood, cardstock and hot glue. They present their prototypes to the class for user testing and create prototype iterations based on feedback. (Note: Conduct this activity in the context of a design project that students are working on; this activity is Step 5 in a series of six that guide students through the engineering design loop.)

This one-page "Cheat Sheet" puts information about PGs into a sustinct format that reminds us about:- what personalized goals are and are not- why we should be using PGs- what makes a foundational outcome - characteristics of a good PG- strategies to support achievement of PGs

This 9 minute video explores the importance of relationships in learning.

In the Journal of Student Engagement (2012) Lauren Liberante writes: “The teacher–student relationship is one of the most powerful elements within the learning...

With ideas from EfficienTEACH you can teach better and save time for what matters most.

This project provides you with research-based teaching practices you can use in class tomorrow to save time AND teach better.

Explore ideas to help you with:
- student engagement
- communication
- memorization
- practice/activities
- assessment
- material/content
- feedback
- routines and habits
- discussion
- teacher tasks
- reflection
- community and relationships
- lesson planning
- teacher wellness

"Here's a sketch video about self-assessment and peer assessment. It includes an explanation of specific strategies you might use."

This video connects PBL, assessment, feedback and metacognition and how it can play a role in your classroom and help develop empowered learners!

These amazing infographics about explicit instruction can take your students' learning to the next level. These leverage the transfer of responsiblity in a meaningful and explicit manner.

Infographics include:

*Structure of an Explicit Lesson
*Delivering Instruction
*Independent Practice
*Active Participation

Thank you, Jamie Clark!

Feedback is a very important tool for assessment, and it has a significant impact on student achievement (0.7 effect size, Hattie). However, students need to know HOW to use that feedback to improve their work, and ultimately their success as a student. This is where Floop comes in!

"Floop is a web app that saves teachers time and helps students see the value in feedback.

Feedback is the #1 driver of student learning. Help create the three conditions for transformational feedback.

Actionable Information
Students get the feedback they need, when they need it. Give feedback 4x faster than traditional methods with a digital dropbox and comment banks.

Agency to Act
Students engage with their feedback while it's still relevant. Help students act on feedback through conversations and resubmissions.

Feedback Literacy
Students learn how to use feedback to grow. Empower students to give feedback through guided peer review. Coach along the way with feedback read receipts."

You will need to create a free account to use this.

This webinar will explore best practices around feedback and how it can best be utilized to impact student learning.

Presented by John Almarode, Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey.

The following resources are from John Spencer and discuss how to develop assessment capable learners and involve students in the assessment process.

This resource from Ditch That Textbook looks at assessment and how we can provide feedback in the most manageable, effective and efficient way possible.
Find great examples and strategies in the following areas:
- Whole-class feedback
- Triaged feedback
- Student self feedback
- Peer feedback

"How are our students doing? Who needs our support right now?"

This year, checking in on students frequently and consistently is even more critical to creating a safe and supportive learning environment.

Administrators and educators can these questions during a morning meeting, advisory period, small group intervention, or general class time to:

Check in on student well-being and supports
Do an interim SEL skills and competencies check
Gather classroom feedback to inform instruction
Identify the students who need extra help right now academically, socially, and emotionally

In This Guide, You'll Get Access to:

✔ Panorama's full check-ins question bank (includes 80+ free response and multiple choice questions for grades 3-12)

✔ Recommendations on who should use the questions, how often to send check-ins, and how to take action on the data

✔ An overview of Panorama's new student check-ins tool, which is a companion to annual SEL and school climate measurement "

You will need to provide your information to download the guide.

Welcome to Sun West's Supporting Assessment Wikispace

The purpose of this wikispace is to support administrators and teachers in Saskatchewan as they extend their professional learning about assessment.
This wikispace has been developed by the Sun West Assessment Committee, and the CAIT (Curriculum, Assessment, Instruction, Technology) Team

"Student assessment is a deliberate process used to provide feedback and evidence for making judgments about students' learning in relation to identified learning outcomes. Teachers guide the evaluation and reporting of student progress to parents/guardians" - Sun West Administrative Procedures 370: Student Assessment

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1.1 Assessment procedures are to support the principles of fair assessment and implement best practices for grading and reporting student achievement.
1.2 Teachers are to use a variety of assessment practices that are fair, objective, and reflect sound professional judgment.
1.3 Student grades are to reflect the level of achievement of the learning outcomes.
1.4 Learning Behaviours will be reported separately.
1.5 Diagnostic and formative assessments will be used to provide direction for improvement or adjustment to a program of instruction (This is assessment for learning).
1.6 Summative assessment will be used to make judgments about a student's achievement at the end of a sequence of instruction in order to assign a grade (assessment of learning).
1.7 Students will be involved in the assessment and grading process, through the use of rubrics, exemplars, inquiry learning, and other means.
1.8 Teachers are to report student progress to parents to guardians by means of parent-teacher-student conferences, reports cards, personal contact, and information technology such as
PowerSchool, emails, blogs, etc.