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Best Practices for Assessment

This collection features resources and articles related to best practices in assessment.  One resource you may wish to purchase is Developing Assessment-Capable Visual Learners (Frey, Hattie Fisher).  This resource can be very valuable in ensuring you keep students at the heart of assessment and involve them in their own learning throughout the entire process.  

 

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Rubric Creator - Create custom assessments
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"You can create customized rubrics for primary, elementary, middle, and high school.

When you make a rubric, you can use default text for a variety of existing performances, or create your content from scratch."

Sample rubrics for a variety of subjects are available.

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Education
English Language Arts
History
Math
Science
Social Studies
Material Type:
Assessment
Date Added:
09/26/2019
School Jigsaw Activity for Supporting Assessment in Saskatchewan (2022)
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Supporting Assessment in Saskatchewan (2022) Resource Professional Development Jigsaw Activity (for Triads) This activity can be completed by your staff in August or during another PD Day throughout the year. The school's triad is encouraged facilitate the activity using the resources provided. 

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Education
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Author:
Melissa Lander
Kelli Boklaschuk
Vanessa Lewis
Arlene Low
Date Added:
06/20/2022
Student Achievement and Supports, Assessment Unit Homepage
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This resource has supports for the Supporting Student Assessment in Saskatchewan (SSAIS) document.

(These supports were created with collaboration with sector representatives, and aligned with the work in Inspiring Success.)

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Education
Material Type:
Assessment
Author:
Government of Saskatchewan
Date Added:
08/29/2023
Supporting Student Assessment in Saskatchewan (2022)
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Supporting Student Assessment in Saskatchewan:provides research-based effective practices for classroom assessment;outlines philosophical ideas and guiding principles for assessment in Saskatchewan classrooms; and,reflects the spirit of continuous improvement.Supporting Student Assessment in Saskatchewan is a resource intended to support teachers and school division leaders, replacing the document Student Evaluation: A Teacher Handbook (1991).

Subject:
Education
Material Type:
Primary Source
Author:
Melissa Lander
Arlene Low
Date Added:
05/11/2022
Using Mathletics to Identify (and fill)  Gaps in Learning
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Mathletics is a powerful tool or weapon of “mass instruction”. This session will show you how to use Mathletics to identify which outcomes your students are currently meeting, and where there are gaps in their learning.  This outcome specific information can be provided for the class overall and each individual student by using the assessments available in Mathletics.  Mathletics can also be used to help fill those learning gaps by using differentiation, and using the information from student activities to group students for small group instruction based on their results from activities.  Come and learn how to put this amazing tool to work for you and your students this year.

Subject:
Education
Material Type:
Primary Source
Author:
Melissa Lander
Vanessa Lewis
Kelli Boklaschuk
Date Added:
06/29/2020
Using assessment data for improving teaching practice
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This article examines how teachers can actively use assessment data to improve their teaching practice, and ultimately improve student learning.

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Fundamental to teachers becoming responsive to student learning needs is the availability of detailed information about what students know and can do. High-quality assessment data can provide that information, but much more is needed to improve teaching practice in ways that have a substantive impact on student learning. A set of conditions are identified that result in such an impact, based on a synthesis of the international literature on professional development that has
demonstrated a positive impact on student outcomes and a professional development program in over 300 New Zealand primary schools. This professional development program is focused on the interpretation and use of assessment information, building relevant pedagogical content knowledge in literacy and developing leadership for the change management process. These developments occurred within systematic inquiry and knowledge-building cycles based on assessment data for both teachers and leaders. Student achievement gains in reading and writing have accelerated at a rate averaging more than twice that
expected, with even greater gains for the lowest-performing students. Both the projects have led to the identification of a set of conditions in improved teaching practice."

Subject:
Education
Material Type:
Primary Source
Author:
Helen Timperley
Date Added:
03/04/2020
Visible Learning - MetaX
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"The Visible LearningTM research base is the culmination of his quest over the past 25 years to answer this question and represents more than 1,600 meta-analyses comprising more than 96,000 studies involving more than 300 million students around the world.

Through the Visible LearningTM research, John Hattie has identified more than 250 factors that influence student achievement. He then set about calculating a score or “effect size” for each, according to its bearing on student achievement. The average effect size of these 250 factors was 0.4, a marker that can be shown to represents an (average) year’s growth per year of schooling for a student. Any factor that has an effect size above 0.4 has an even greater positive effect on student learning.

Each of these factors have been categorized into one of nine domains

StudentFactors relating to background, beliefs, and physical influences
Home Factors relating to family resources, structure, and environment
School Factors related to school-type, pre-school, school composition, and leadership
Classroom Factors related to class composition, giftedness, and classroom influences
Teacher Factors relating to teacher attributes, teacher-student interactions, and teacher education
Curricula Factors related to various curricula programs
Student Learning Strategies Factors relating to self-regulation, student perspectives, and learning strategies
Teaching Strategies Factors relating to learning intentions, success criteria, feedback, and teaching strategies
Technology, School, and Out-Of-School StrategiesFactors relating to technology, school-wide methods, and out of school learning"

Subject:
Education
Material Type:
Primary Source
Author:
John Hattie
Date Added:
10/17/2019