Class Notes Oct. 17th

3 Questions an ID asks:

1. Where are we going?
2. How are we going to get there?
3. How do we know when we’ve arrived?


* Unless you can test and measure the outcome, you’ll never know if you’ve been successful.
* Focus on outcome (even if it doesn’t mean success)
* After you’ve written objectives: ASSESS!!

I was a bit of a spaz throughout most of my undergraduate years. My primary concern was having fun, that I managed to become educated still sometimes surprises me - that I did it well is nothing short of miraculous. I never knew where I was going, figuratively speaking, I chose English as a degree because I like to read. Then I graduated and had no idea what I was going to do with myself and my fancy B.A. Had I used my brain and figured out where I was going and how to get there, I could've saved myself time and money. As this is my life, my time, my money, I'm free to waste it as I please. However, I very much doubt that future employers would appreciate my wasting their time and money.

So....Know where you're going! Figure out how you're getting there. And be sure to create a way to determine when you've arrived.


How do you determine mastery?

- Establish criterion
- Is the assessment congruent with learning objective?
- With every test, there will likely be some congruencies.
-What is the verb on your objective? That tells you how you’ll measure learning.

Learning objectives all over again.


The 3x5…not just a note card.
* Use it as an informal assessment.
- What’s unclear to you?
- One sentence summary
- Concept Map
- Inventive Dialog
- What’s the principle?
- Direct paraphrasing/Directed paraphrasing
- Student generated test questions
- Classroom opinion poll
- Chain notes
- RSQC2 (Recall, Summarize, Question, Comment, Connect)
- T/F – Why is it false?

*Note: I used 3x5 cards in several different ways this school year. First: as an informal vote when my students picked out their novel for next term. Second: as a formative assessment during our prefix/suffix unit. Third: as a mini-quiz about our new school rules.

I'm sold on the beauty of the 3x5!


THINK OUTSIDE THE ASSESSMENT BOX