One of the great things about the Growing Success document is that is gives us a strong picture of the types of assessment we need to be doing on our students: Assessing for Learning, Assessing of Learning and Assessing As Learning. Assessment can be recorded in many different ways: anecdotal notes, descriptive feedback and as marks in our mark book.
The Junior Division at Manhattan Park looked at different forms of assessment during their PLC for math. What really "clicked" for them was an idea that they saw in the Damian Cooper book "Talk About Assessment" which all of your schools have a copy of. In thinking of the types of questions they were asking, they also started thinking about how they were assessing the questions. They saw a sample of a mark book where the students were marked in each of the areas of the achievement chart and decided to try it for the unit they were working on.
What Doris and Diana said they liked about this chart (which they modified to meet their needs) was that they could look and see what types of questions they needed to assess to make sure they were getting the true picture of their student's progress. As well, the area at the bottom really allowed them the opportunity to record their observations of each student. This allowed them to have a bank of comments for the report card that was not only student specific, but in parent friendly language.
You can also help parents understand why there is more to a mark in math than just answering questions like 8 x3 = 24, as you can show specific question types their child was successful in, and struggled in.
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