Assessment tools to help you gather evidence of student learning over time

A single point rubric, evaluative rubric and tracking forms for generating ideas

Here you go! This is a full set of assessment tools to help you track and evaluate student understanding of generating ideas. Normally, this will be part of a premium subscription. At the bottom of the newsletter you will find PDFs and Google Docs for all of the resources.

This is another resource to support the Generating Better Ideas newsletter and the lesson plan.

These assessment tools all emphasize skill-based success criteria as the basis for the purpose of gathering evidence. Knowing the success criteria is the foundation for all task design and student activities. Next week, I will be sharing another task/lesson/activity you can do with your students.

Tracking Forms
These assessment for learning tools are great ways to gather and track evidence of student learning over time. Tracking forms allow you to gather information quickly and notice students who may require individual, targeted strategies to help them understand the success criteria. Tracking forms also allow you to form small groups for guided support.

Example

Example

Single Point Rubrics
This assessment for learning tool allows you to gather evidence of student learning DURING the learning. You can provide feedback to the student by providing both strengths and next steps. I never used to do a good job with the strengths column. I would write things like, ‘Your ideas were relevant’. Try instead, to emphasize what you want to see the student continue to do as shown in the example image below. The ‘next step’ should be specific and focussed on the success criteria.

Evaluative Rubric
This assessment of learning tool should only be used at the end of a period of learning. This is when we assign an evaluation or grade to student learning (I hate this part!). Notice that a Level 4 or ‘A’ is simply the success criteria with the qualifier ‘highly’. Level 4 work should not be considered ‘above and beyond’. It should be based on the curriculum and the success criteria developed from the curriculum and it must be explicitly taught.

Tracking Forms - PDF
Student Tracking Form - Google Doc
Class Tracking Form - Google Doc
Single Point Rubric - PDF
Single Point Rubric - Google Doc
Evaluative Rubric - PDF
Evaluative Rubric - Google Doc

I hope you find these useful. Please modify to your own needs and purposes.

Bye for now,
Lori

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