Assessment

How To Assess

How & What to Assess

Types of Assessment of Learning

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Characteristics of Assessment

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What do We Assess in the PYP

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In the PYP teachers are responsible for developing ongoing assessment to measure what students know, understand and can do at various points in an inquiry. The goal, when teachers decide what to assess, is to be able to answer: What will students know, understand, and be able to do as a result of engaging in the learning? Check out this article by Toddle that will help to answer that question.

Guide to Assessments in the PYP

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This informative guide and the accompanying resources from Toddle deep dives into 5 key questions: 
  • Part 1. Why do we assess?
  • Part 2. What to assess?
  • Part 3. How to assess?
  • Part 4. What do we mean by assessment capable students?
  • Part 5. What are some ways of reporting on learning?
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Four PYP Assessment Webinars

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Check out these four webinars from Toddle. They explore:

Reporting Sentence Starters

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Check out the article: Writing Effective Report Card Comments in the PYP from Toddle:

Blog: Assessment: What and How?

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This blog entry by Yuni Santosa discusses the "when and how" to assess from an enhanced PYP perspective
You can find more blogs about assessment here.

Developing & Using Success Criteria

Run Time: 53:00 - Mar 9, 2021
How would your students respond to the question, “How will I know if I have learned something?” When both you and your students have clarity about learning through high-quality success criteria, there is a greater likelihood that learning will happen and that all students will experience success in their learning. Success criteria can be used as a formative or summative assessment strategy. Whether face-to-face, hybrid, or at a distance, this webinar will introduce how best to support the development and implementation of high-quality success criteria.

Building Rubrics for Authentic Assessment

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**Watch a webinar by Mike Matthews that describes the e-booklet above**

Six Reasons to Try a Single-Point Rubric

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A format that provides students with personalized feedback and works to keep students from focusing solely on their grade. It is very formative in nature.

A List of Assessment Examples

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Assessments are designed to produce data and/or evidence of learning and teaching. This list of assessment examples offers considerations, when designing assessment for knowledge, conceptual understandings and skills, both individually and with collaborative planning teams.

Ideas for Exit Tickets in the Classroom

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Quick, ungraded assessments help teachers know what their students understand from the day’s lesson.

Fostering a Growth Mindset Through Assessment

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Teachers can use the principles of competency-based assessment and social-emotional learning to shape a positive mindset within students.

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