IN PROGRESS AUGUST 1 - 3
Institute Agenda
My Presentation Slides about Project Learning and ThinkQuest
Dr. Nancy Doda’s website
Other Institute Presenter Bios
Campus Map PDF Online To download
The Best Resources Showing Why We Need To Be “Data-Informed” & Not “Data-Driven”
Three Areas to Become Proficient in Collecting Data in Light of Building Your EPSS
(USIP in Colorado)
1. Student Performance. Get very familiar with all the standards, especially the newest Common Core Standards in LA and Math. PARCC and Smarter Balanced consortiums are developing assessments for states to use with Common Cores. New Mexico has aligned with PARCC, which has a mid-year and end-year assessment. Those will be our targets. (Colorado has gone with Smarter Balanced - four-years $176 million.) PARCC site: http://www.parcconline.org/ SMARTER Balanced site: http://www.k12.wa.us/smarter/
2. Student Engagement. Construct curriculum in a fashion that we can collect data about Common Core Standards within our instruction, of course integrating best practices and nothing less. Do a good job creating your Enduring Understandings or Essential Learnings based on the standards, make good formative assessments, differentiate instruction, and collect data as we go, we have some data that is useful.
3. Research-Based Instructional Best Practices.
FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT DISCUSSION
Informal/Casual Data Collection integrated into instruction via
Understanding by Design and http://www.grantwiggins.org/documents/UbDQuikvue1005.pdf
Informal, formative assessment strategies:
- http://www.education.com/reference/article/formative-and-summative-assessment/
- http://education.ezinemark.com/teachers-formative-assessment-informal-assessment-of-students-mathematical-processes-4eac553b1b0.html
- http://www.pdesas.org/Assessment/About
- CPS - clickers or online polling tools* (FAQ’s: http://www.pdesas.org/Assessment/About)
- Student Data Folders
- Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down
- Show with 1-5 fingers your comfort level
- Checklists on clipboards (on rosters, seating charts, etc.)
- Assessment embedded in instructional strategies
- Looking for majority mastered vs. minority mastered to modify instruction (not individuals)
- TRANSFORMATIVE ASSESSMENT by James W. Popham http://www.ascd.org/publications/books/108018.aspx
*Clickers (Classroom Response Systems or Audience Responses Systems)
Costs of clickers: http://blog.classroomteacher.ca/251/classroom-technology-smart-response-smart-technologies-student-response-system/
Major Vendor(s): http://www.turningtechnologies.com/studentresponsesystem/ - Common brands are eInstruction, Sentio, TurningPoint, Activote. Systems are about $2,000 - $4,000 (depending on various options selected).
How to Use Clickers:
- http://www.howtodothings.com/education/how-to-use-a-response-system-in-the-classroom
- Five Ways to Engage Students With LectureTools Classroom Response System
Alternatives to Clickers:
- http://www.renlearn.com/2know/?gclid=CJPe-7a8rqoCFeUaQgod8mHDWg
- http://booroo.com/blog/a-classroom-response-system-that-fits-your-budget/
- http://code.google.com/p/sms-feedback-system/, http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/low-tech-alternatives-to-clickers/34184
Poll Everywhere
- www.polleverywhere.com
- http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2010/10/free-classroom-response-system-with.html
Socrative Student Responses System
- http://www.socrative.com/
- http://sordyl.info/2011/04/20/socrative-student-smartphonetablet-response-system/
- http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2011/06/socrative-student-response-system.html