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    Ten tips are provided for writing common formative assessments: (1) assess only essential learning targets to get information quickly; (2) write assessments and rubrics collaboratively for valuable conversations; (3) test mastery of no more than 3-4 learning targets per assessment to allow for intervention. (4) Clearly tie questions to learning targets to spot patterns in mastery; (5) choose appropriate assessment types for content; (6) use wrong answer choices to highlight misconceptions and learn more about students; (7) provide enough context for constructed response questions; (8) make higher level questions apply knowledge in new situations. The tips are easy to understand and integrate into the assessment process.

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    Ten tips are provided for writing common formative assessments: (1) assess only essential learning targets to get information quickly; (2) write assessments and rubrics collaboratively for valuable conversations; (3) test mastery of no more than 3-4 learning targets per assessment to allow for intervention. (4) Clearly tie questions to learning targets to spot patterns in mastery; (5) choose appropriate assessment types for content; (6) use wrong answer choices to highlight misconceptions and learn more about students; (7) provide enough context for constructed response questions; (8) make higher level questions apply knowledge in new situations. The tips are easy to understand and integrate into the assessment process.

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    Ten tips are provided for writing common formative assessments: (1) assess only essential learning targets to get information quickly; (2) write assessments and rubrics collaboratively for valuable conversations; (3) test mastery of no more than 3-4 learning targets per assessment to allow for intervention. (4) Clearly tie questions to learning targets to spot patterns in mastery; (5) choose appropriate assessment types for content; (6) use wrong answer choices to highlight misconceptions and learn more about students; (7) provide enough context for constructed response questions; (8) make higher level questions apply knowledge in new situations. The tips are easy to understand and integrate into the assessment process.

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    Ten Tips for Writing Common Formative Assessments

    Remember that getting information quickly and easily is essential.  Assessment data is only
    valuable if (1). you are actually willing and able to collect it and (2). you can act on it in a timely manner.  
    That simple truth should fundamentally change the way that you think about assessments.

    Write your assessments and scoring rubrics together even if that means you initially
    deliver fewer common assessments.  Collaborative conversations about what to assess, how to
    assess and what mastery looks like in action are just as valuable as student data sets.

    Assess ONLY the learning targets that you identified as essential.  Assessing nonessential
    standards just makes it more difficult to get -- and to take action on -- information quickly and easily.

    Ask at least 3 questions for each learning target that you are trying to test.  That allows
    students to muff a question and still demonstrate mastery.  Just as importantly, that means a poorly
    written question won't ruin your data set.

    Test mastery of no more than 3 or 4 learning targets per assessment.  Doing so makes
    remediation after an assessment doable.  Can you imagine trying to intervene when an assessment
    shows students who have struggled to master more than 4 learning targets?
    #meneither

    Clearly tie every single question to an essential learning target.  Doing so makes tracking
    mastery by student and standard possible.  Your data sets have more meaning when you can spot
    patterns in mastery at the target -- instead of just the question -- level.

    Choose assessment types that are appropriate for the content or skills that you are
    trying to measure.  Using performance assessments to measure the mastery of basic facts is overkill.  
    Similarly, using a slew of multiple choice questions to measure the mastery of complex thinking skills is
    probably going to come up short.
    #sheeshArne

    When writing multiple choice questions, use wrong answer choices to highlight
    common misconceptions.  The patterns found in the WRONG answers of well-written tests can tell
    you just as much as the patterns found in the RIGHT answers.  Fill your test with careless or comical
    distractors and you are missing out on an opportunity to learn more about your kids.

    When writing constructed response questions, provide students with enough context to
    be able to answer the question.  Context plays a vital role in constructing a meaningful response to
    any question.  Need proof?  Find the parents of a teenage daughter who asks, "Can I go to the mall with
    some friends tonight?" How much you want to bet that they are going to ask a few questions before
    saying yes?  I know I will!
    #sorryReecie

    Make sure that higher level questions ask students to apply knowledge and/or skills in
    new situations.  A higher level question that asks kids to apply knowledge in the same way as they
    have practiced before becomes a lower level question really quickly.

    The beautiful part of all of these tips, y'all, is that they are easy to understand AND easy to
    integrate into your process for developing common formative assessments.
    So whaddya' waiting for?

    Posted by Bill Ferriter on Friday, 04/04/2014


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