BCAMT 2022 - Standards Based Assessment: An Assessment Method for all Math Students to Belong - Amos Lee
- "Developing" - let them use notes! They just won't progress beyond that level
- Core questions = all do, Advanced questions = can do, if you want to get to those top two
- If you want to get to xxx course, you need to do advanced questions
- Use curricular competencies rubric
- Demonstrate levels of mastery
- "Compare the following..."
- Tests are split into learning outcomes, each section just gets one overall
Tests-- "Celebration of learning"
- Mid-course Feedback from Gr. 12 students:
- Positive:
- Decreased anxiety levels during test
- Focus on big concepts
- Lets me know if I know concepts, not the right answers
- Have purpose in re-learning
- Less stress on ensuring get each and every mark
- Negative:
- No sense of urgency
- Feel stress of not knowing the percentage
- Multiple Choice Questions - Why?
- Take the work they have scratched down into account
- Reassessment: Didn't ask them to reassess the whole test; they can just do part of it
- Doesn't have to be a big formal process -- have them come at lunch, put a question up on the board, "do it" -- if they can, great, if not, go from there
- Looking at what they can do at the end, not at what they can do at the beginning
The Implementation
- Reporting Order:
- K-9 = Proficiency Scale
- 10-12 = Letter Grades and Percentages
- "Every student has a place on the scale at any given time...."
- MyEd & Reporting
- Categories become your "curricular competencies" (no longer Tests, Homework, Participation)
- All categories weighed at 0%
- Process is the same when you create new assignment EXCEPT
- Category becomes curricular competencies
- Instead of a number, put in letters
- Gradebook has way more entries! "Chapter 2 tests could have 3 or 4 entries"
- Can create "multiple assignments" for different areas of reporting
- Total points is 1.0
- Change the Grade Scale
- Utilize progress reports when choosing "overall"
- Separate SBA Report Card
Strategies to Adapt Class to SBA
- Use Curricular Competencies Rubric
- Take old tests and move things around
- Sort into the four CC sections
- Ask students to use "Interpret, Apply, Solve, Analyze, Communicate" on assignments; scaffold and walk them through
- You don't have to put everything into MyEd
- Take extra practice sheets and turn them into assignments and tests -- in CC sections
Books:
- Standards Based Learning in Action (Tom Schimmer)
- Grading for Equity (Joe Feldman)
- Standards-Based Classroom: Make Learning...
I teach at a SBA school, or we call it "Outcomes Based". Gone are the percentages allotments for "Tests 20%, Participation 20%, Assignments 40%". Now, if I give an assignment with multiple outcomes, they may get three "marks" in my gradebook. It makes it nice to immediately see what they specifically need to improve.
ReplyDeleteI see the positives with this. I like the idea of just retesting the one concept they missed. I failed my first driver's test due to parallel parking. For my retest, shouldn't I just have to prove that I can parallel park?
Love this link to the Google Drive! I love how the rubric in the Slides Presentation on SBA for a Grade 8/9 class has the arrows. There is something visually powerful about those arrows and suggests that learning is a process, and shows how we are progressing!
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