(Cover Page Format)

Field Study 5

Learning Assessment
Strategies

Name of Student:____________________________________

Cooperating School:__________________________________

Cooperating Principal:________________________________
Cooperating Supervisor:_______________________________

FORMAT
I. COVER PAGE

II. TABLE OF CONTENTS

III. BODY

A. Episode #_____

B. Objective

C. Interview Results

D. Observation and Reflection

E. Sample Teachers’ work to support the episode

F. Signature over printed name of the resource teacher

IV. APPENDICES ( SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS )

 Episode 1- PLANNING FOR ASSESSMENT

Why am I assessing?

Interview guide:

How did you plan for:

1. structuring and differentiating instruction and learning opportunities

in order to reinforce and build on productive learning, and to challenge
beliefs or ideas that create problems or inhibit the next stage of learning?

2. obtaining rich and detailed information about how students are

progressing in developing the habits of mind and skills to monitor,
challenge, and adjust their own learning?

3. measuring, certifying, and reporting the level of students’ learning, so

that reasonable decisions can be made about students?

Observations

Reflection 1

Think about an example of assessment for, as, and of learning in your

own experience as student?
 Episode 2- ASSESSMENT TARGETS

What is in Assessing?

Interview guide:

What are your considerations in preparing for assessments that:

1. will expose students’ thinking and skills in relation to the intended

learning, and the common preconceptions?

2. can monitor students’ goal-setting process and their thinking about

their learning, and the strategies students use to support or challenge,
adjust, and advance their learning?

3. enable students to show the complexity of their understanding, apply

key concepts, knowledge, skills, and attitudes in ways that are authentic
and consistent with current thinking in the knowledge domain?

Observations
Reflection 2

What are some next steps that you or your future learning team might
explore in order to make a difference in student learning?
 Episode 3- TYPE OF ASSESSMENT TOOLS

What assessment method should I use?

Interview guide:

What assessment method did you use in order:

1. to give you information that will be useful for planning and teaching?

2. to elicit detailed information both about students’ learning and about

their metacognitive processes?

3. to show students’ understanding and produce sufficient information to

support credible and defensible statements about the nature and quality
of their learning, so that others can use the results in appropriate ways?

Observations

Reflection 3.

How will you apply each of the characteristics of different assessment

tools to increase academic performance of the students?
 Episode 4- ENSURING QUALITY

How can I ensure quality in this assessment process?

Interview guide:

How did you manage to use assessment results in order to meet the
following:

1. Reliability of information in actually getting a clear picture of how the

students are thinking and what it is that they understand or find
confusing.

2. Reference points or Curriculum learning outcomes

3. Validity
How did you ensure that assessment can shed light on students’
understanding of the ideas that are contained in the learning outcomes
and in the effectiveness of the choices and the guidance that the teacher
provides for the next stage of learning?

4. Record Keeping
How did you managed to keep records to show whether the student work
is on track and, when it is not, raise questions about the instruction and
ways it could be adjusted?

Observations
Reflection 4.
What forms do your reports of student proficiency take? How do these
differ according to audience?
 Episode 5 - DECISION MAKING

How can I use the information from this assessment?

Interview guide:

How did you used the information from assessment in order to

1. Provide Feedback to Students;

2. Differentiate Learning;
3. Report assessment results.

Observations

Reflection 5
How will you use assessment to determine the differences in your
students’ learning needs and how this influence the instruction that
follows?
SAMPLE OF TEACHERS’ WORK

Signature over printed name