Learning Opportunities

Building Better Assessments: A Hands-On Session (K-6)

Presented By

Tim Coates

Series Sessions

Date Time
Tuesday, January 29, 2019 9:00 AM - 3:30 PM

Location

In Person FFCA - Learning Centre 110 - 7000 Railway St. SE, Calgary, AB

TARGET AUDIENCE: ALL K-6 TEACHER AND ADMINISTRATORS ARE ENCOURAGED TO ATTEND

This session offers participants training in some of the finer points in building assessments combined with time to build new assessments.  Participants will receive background guidance into best practices in designing and constructing assessments, interspersed with time to work on whatever assessment they are building.  Participants are encouraged to share their work with their peers to benefit from constructive feedback to help refine their product. 

The session will include guidance in the basics such as:

  • Assessing for the big ideas
  • Creating clear and concise instructions that promote student engagement
  • Incorporating best practice principles in making performance assessments
  • Constructing high-quality scoring methods, such as rubrics and rating scales
  • Providing effective exemplars of student work
  • Making high quality constructed response items 

Participants should have a plan in place for what they intend to build prior to the session.

This learning opportunity is being offered through curriculum implementation funding from Alberta Education.

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