Formative Assessment in Distance Learning

Formative Assessment in Distance Learning

Dominic E. Liquido

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Opening Activity - Answer the following questions in TRUE or FALSE.

Multiple Choice

Whether we use synchronous or asynchronous online sessions, whether we call it distance or virtual learning.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Multiple Choice

Formative assessment at a distance is challenging and impossible.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Multiple Choice

Formative assessment is a process, and it’s important to collect evidence of learning over time.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Multiple Choice

When checking for understanding, it’s important to communicate the feedback that comes from it.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Multiple Choice

All of those data points tell us something we can use to provide timely feedback, adjust instruction, and plan ahead.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Schools are closed but schooling goes on, and it remains crucial that teachers find ways to see what students are learning.

Whether we use synchronous or asynchronous online sessions, whether we call it distance or virtual learning, we’re all challenged to provide meaningful education experiences at a distance as the education world grapples with the impact of Covid-19.

This type of learning is nothing new, but it is new to many of us and has caused us to quickly shift our practices.

Formative assessment at a distance is challenging but possible, and we still need to check for understanding and provide meaningful feedback. The practices we use will look and sound different than they do in the classroom. Here are some ideas to consider.

FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT AT A DISTANCE

1. Know your purpose

There are so many tools to use to check for understanding. As it is important to have routines and still have variety, select two to four tools that work well for you and your students. Focusing on just a few allows students to experience tools they’re used to, while also ensuring that checking for learning doesn’t get boring.

Make sure the tools you use fit your purpose. If you need to see students’ process, select a tool that can capture that, such as Animoto or Flipgrid. If you need to check their content knowledge, try Kahoot or Quizziz.

2. Collect data over time

Formative assessment is a process, and it’s important to collect evidence of learning over time. While you may teach and dictate which digital tools students can use, work with students to have them document their learning along the way. Give them guides or checkpoints to let them know what they need to submit and when they need to do so.

You might ask students to submit reflection videos in Seesaw or send photos of their progress. Screenshots and scanning tools also work well. You can partner with parents to take those videos or photos, especially for students in the younger years.

3. Focus on feedback

When checking for understanding, it’s important to communicate the feedback that comes from it. As a teacher, you can provide written and/or oral feedback through videos or sound recordings.

4. Check for understanding in synchronous sessions.

Those in-the-moment checks for understanding that we did in the classroom were valuable, allowing us to adjust instruction and meet students where they were.

These check-ins help you provide just-in-time feedback, and can guide your thinking about who might need further support later through resources, intervention, or small-group instruction through breakout groups in a synchronous session.

5. Check in on SEL (Social - Emotional Learning)

Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) is the process through which children and adults acquire the knowledge, attitudes, and skills they need to: recognize and manage their emotions; demonstrate caring and concern for others; establish positive relationships; and make responsible decisions;

In addition to checking in on academic learning, be sure to check in on students’ well-being and their overall distance learning experience. Simple questions can prompt students to share their feedback:

What’s working? What’s not working well? What would you recommend?

6. Make it useful

Data is useless unless it is used. When we collect and examine formative assessments, we need to use what we learn from them to inform instruction.

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Multiple Choice

__________shall be administered to assess essential knowledge and understandings through quizzes and long/ unit tests.

• Performance Tasks

• Formative Tests

• Written Works

• Summative Tests

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_____________ refer to assessment tasks that "allow learners to show what they know and are able to do in diverse ways. They may create innovative products or skill demonstrations.

• Performance Tasks

• Written Works

• Formative Tests

• Summative Tests

Multiple Choice

To evaluate student learning at particular points in each quarter, summative assessments shall continue in the form of ____________ and ______________.

• quizzes and long test

• module and summative test

• formative test and summative test

• written works and performance tasks.

Multiple Choice

___________ for this school year, particular focus will be given to the following:

1. Designing the assessment to allow for flexibility in multiple modalities;

2.Setting up mechanisms to monitor and record progress remotely

• Teachers

• Learners

• School Leaders

• Parents/guardians

• all of the above

Multiple Choice

In this school year implementation of distance learning modalities,____________ will play a crucial role in guiding their children in adapting to the changes in the distance learning process.

• Teachers

• Learners

• School Leaders

• Parents/guardians

• all of the above

Multiple Choice

_________are expected to be proactive in updating the teacher of their situation, progress, and challenges encountered.

• Teachers

• Learners

• School Leaders

• Parents/guardians

• all of the above

Multiple Choice

_____________ must commit to uphold the integrity of learning and instruction in the context of distance education.

• Teachers

• School leaders

• Learners

• Parents/guardians

• all of the above

Multiple Choice

___________ is an assessment that is usually administered toward the end of a learning period to measure the extent to which the learners have mastered essential learning competencies, the result of which are recorded and used to report the learners' achievement.

• Classroom Assessment

• Summative Assessment

• Formative Assessment

• Quarterly Test

Multiple Choice

_______ is a process that involves teachers using evidence about what learners know and can do to inform and improve their teaching.

• Classroom Assessment

• Formative Assessment

• Summative Assessment

• Quarterly Test

Multiple Choice

______________ should be used to inform and improve classroom practices and promote learning outcomes.

• DepEd Orders

• Assessment

• Planning

• Remediation

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