Case Study
EXAMINE the summative assessment sample, focusing on the relationships between:
- Summative assessment to ATL skills
- To what extent do the ATL skills allow complexity to manifest in the task?
- To what extent does the task allow students to demonstrate the ATL skills with complexity?
- Formative and summative assessment:
- What formative tasks would allow students to succeed in this summative assessment? For which ATL skills might each task provide rehearsal?
Dialog with your group how you might be able to use the planning kit as you plan an assessment.
Share an idea and post it on our idea wall.
What did you see?
What did you think?
Now that I have to solve
an unfamiliar problem
with no apparent answer,
how do I learn?
TO
APPROACHES
ATL skills manifest in student performance in unfamiliar problems.
LEARNING
Driving student achievement
ATL skills manifest in student performance in unfamiliar problems.
Using Bloom's taxonomy and command terms related to each level help us design assessments that have the complexity we require for our students.
Findings
Work in subject groups.
How might you use this planning kit?
ATL skills are tested by students being able to perform with appropriate complexity in assessment tasks.
To assess students' ATL skills we have to plan assessments that target a specific level of complexity.
Bloom's taxonomy gives us the levels of thinking being asked for in our command terms.
Command terms require students to perform at specific levels of complexity.
How does assessment help us to rehearse and assess ATL skills?
How do command terms support ATL instruction?
Command terms require students to perform at specific levels of complexity.