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• Formative assessment


  Checking on student's understanding during teaching
• Techniques for formative assessment


  1. Response cards

  2. Hand signals

  3. Games
• Response cards


  • Pre-printed cards with responses like "Yes or No"
• Hand signals


  • Thumbs up - "I understand and can explain it"
  • Thumb sideways - "I'm not completely sure about..."
  • Thumbs down - "I don't understand"
• Game-based learning


  Using a game of any kind to realize a learning outcome
• Socrative


  Classroom engagement app that provides games and other activities for students
• Kahoot


  Mobile application that allows teachers to construct homework assignments like video game-type quests
• Quizlet


  App that allows educators to convert data-gathering into a gamified form
• Quizizz


  Lets teachers monitor the results of students' work as they do it, and students progress at their own pace
• Quizazile


  Provides quizzes and assessments, and lets you track individual students' work at a granular level
• Plickers


  Formative assessment tool that uses abstract cards the teacher photographs to analyze data and present individualized reports
• Self-assessment is important in formative assessment
• Rubrics


  Provide specific feedback in formative assessment
• Additional formative assessment strategies from "Mindful Assessment"


  • Essential fluencies for innovative learning
• Grading


  The system that teachers use to assess and quantify students' academic performance and achievement
• Reporting


  The process used to communicate student achievement information
• Major purposes of grading and reporting

  • Communicating student achievement
  • Providing self-evaluation information
  • Selecting students for programs
• Functions of grading systems


  • Communicate student achievement
  • Provide feedback for self-evaluation
  • Select students for programs
  • Indicate level of student effort or responsibility
• Types of grading systems

  • Letter grades
  • Pass-fail
  • Checklists
  • Percentages
  • Standards-based grading
• Guidelines for developing effective grading systems
• The K-12 grading approach in the Philippines includes levels and weights of assessment
• Grading System


  A system that a school has developed to guide how teachers assess and grade student work
• Grading


  An activity done throughout a term or course, a way for educators and learners to communicate about the learner's progression toward proficiency
• Reporting System


  A general term applied to a wide range of applications that extract data from databases, organize this data into reports, manage and distribute these reports to decision makers
• Reporting


  The final letter assigned to a course, usually transcripted or reported at the end of terms, based on a mathematical formula that considers the importance of learning
• Reasons grading and reporting systems were developed

  • To improve communication with parents, students, guidance counselors, other teachers, colleges, future employers
  • To diagnose students' weaknesses earlier and more accurately so they can get needed help
  • To more accurately measure students' achievement of academic content standards
  • To ensure grading practices support learning
  • To solve inconsistent grading practices district-wide
• 1. 12 basic education program grading system


  • Standard and competency-based
  • Grades based on weighted raw score of summative assessments
  • Minimum passing grade of 60 transmuted to 75 on report card
  • Lowest mark on report card is 60
• Grades computation


  1. Get total score for each component

  2. Divide total raw score by highest possible score, multiply by 100%

  3. Convert percentage scores to weighted scores

  4. Add weighted scores of each component for initial grade

  5. Transmute initial grade using transmutation table
• Report card


  Shows final grades and general average from 1st to 4th quarter, used to communicate student's learning progress to parents
• Report cards focus more on assessment of learning than assessment for learning
• Administrative and guidance purpose of grading and reporting

  • Helping decide promotion, graduation, honors, athletic eligibility
  • Reporting achievements to other schools or employers
  • Providing input to educational, vocational, and personal counseling